Word Meanings - INTOLERATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Intolerance; want of toleration; refusal to tolerate a difference of opinion.

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• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• OPINIONATE
  Opinionated.
• DIFFERENCE
  An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. See Augmentation, and Marks of cadency, under Cadency. (more info) 1. The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or
• TOLERATION
  1. The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved. 2. Specifically, the allowance of religious opinions and modes of worship in a state when contrary to, or different from, those of the established church or belief. 3.
• OPINIONIST
  One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions. Glanvill.
• OPINIONABLE
  Being, or capable of being, a matter of opinion; that can be thought; not positively settled; as, an opinionable doctrine. C. J. Ellicott.
• OPINIONATED
  Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion. Sir W. Scott.
• OPINIONATIST
  An opinionist.
• TOLERATE
  To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices. Crying should not be tolerated in children. Locke. We tolerate
• REFUSAL
  1. The act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance. Do they not seek occasion of new quarrels, On my refusal, to distress me more Milton. 2. The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking
• INTOLERANCE
  1. Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light. 2. The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of worship, and the like; want of patience and forbearance; illiberality; bigotry;
• OPINION
  The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a counselor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted. To be of opinion, to think; to judge. -- To hold opinion with, to agree
• OPINIONED
  Opinionated; conceited. His opinioned zeal which he thought judicious. Milton.
• OPINIONATELY
  Conceitedly. Feltham.
• OPINIONATIVE
  1. Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated. Milton. 2. Of the nature of an opinion; conjectured. "Things both opinionative and practical." Bunyan. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ly, adv. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ness, n.
• SELF-OPINION
  Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion. Collier.
• INTOLERATION
  Intolerance; want of toleration; refusal to tolerate a difference of opinion.
• INTOLERATED
  Not tolerated.
• INDIFFERENCE
  1. The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance. 2. Passableness; mediocrity. 3. Impartiality; freedom from prejudice,
• PREOPINION
  Opinion previously formed; prepossession; prejudice. Sir T. Browne.
• SELF-OPINIONED
  Having a high opinion of one's self; opinionated; conceited. South.
• DISOPINION
  Want or difference of belief; disbelief. Bp. Reynolds.
• MISOPINION
  Wrong opinion.