Antonyms for toleration

Grammar : Noun

Spell : tol-uh-rey-shuh n

Phonetic Transcription : ˌtɒl əˈreɪ ʃən

Definition of toleration

Origin : 1510s, "permission granted by authority, license," from Middle French tolération (15c.), from Latin tolerationem (nominative toleratio) "a bearing, supporting, enduring," noun of action from past participle stem of tolerare "to tolerate, literally "to bear" (see extol). Meaning "forbearance, sufferance" is from 1580s. Religious sense is from Act of Toleration, statute granting freedom of religious worship (with conditions) to dissenting Protestants in England, 1689.

noun tolerance

Example sentences :

Wanhope waited for a thoughtful moment of censure eventuating in toleration.
Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various

And can toleration in the active-spirited be ever anything more than approximate?
Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Plato has not advanced quite so far as this in the path of toleration.
Extract from : « Laws » by Plato

They babbled of toleration, as if any heresy were to be endured, if only it were believed.
Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine

Their aspirations are all on the side of toleration, harmony and peaceful progress.
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

We must not strain the toleration of the French authorities too much!
Extract from : « The Arrow of Gold » by Joseph Conrad

There is a point where toleration sinks into sheer baseness and poltroonery.
Extract from : « The Biglow Papers » by James Russell Lowell

And this, my brethren, may teach us toleration and compassion for the rich.
Extract from : « The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 » by Various

Again the boy made a mute appeal for toleration, as he replied, “I was first.”
Extract from : « Follow My leader » by Talbot Baines Reed

But that great experiment of toleration lasted less than a century.
Extract from : « John Knox » by A. Taylor Innes

Synonyms for toleration

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