Word Meanings - TOLERATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: 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. Hence, freedom from bigotry and severity in judgment of the opinions or belief of others, especially in respect to religious matters.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TOLERATION)

• Sufferance
• Toleration
• permission
• allowance
• endurance
• moderation
• self-control
• long suffering
• patience

Related words: (words related to TOLERATION)

• SUFFERABLE
  1. Able to suffer or endure; patient. "Ye must be sufferable." Chaucer. 2. That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable. -- Suf"fer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Suf"fer*a*bly, adv.
• MODERATION
  The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods. (more info) 1. The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint. 2. The state or quality of being mmoderate. In moderation placing
• PERMISSION
  The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted. High permission of all-ruling Heaven. Milton. You have given me your permission for this address. Dryden. Syn. -- Leave; liberty; license. -- Leave,
• 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.
• SUFFERING
  The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs. "Souls in sufferings tried." Keble.
• SUFFERANCE
  souffrance, L. sufferentia, from sufferens, -entis, p.pr. of 1. The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance. He must not only die the death, But thy unkindness shall his death draw out To lingering sufferance. Shak. 2. Pain endured;
• ALLOWANCE
  A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. (more info) 1. Approval; approbation. Crabbe. 2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission;
• SELF-CONTROL
  Control of one's self; restraint exercised over one's self; self-command.
• SUFFERER
  1. One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are sufferers by fire or by losses at sea. 2. One who permits or allows.
• SUFFER
  LL. sofferire, for L. sufferre; sub under + ferre to bear, 1. To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind. 2. To endure or undergo without sinking;
• PATIENCE
  A kind of dock , less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty,
• ENDURANCE
  1. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance. Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott. 2. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• INSUFFERABLY
  In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.
• CO-SUFFERER
  One who suffers with another. Wycherley.
• UNPATIENCE
  Impatience.
• INTOLERATION
  Intolerance; want of toleration; refusal to tolerate a difference of opinion.
• OUTSUFFER
  To exceed in suffering.
• UNSUFFERING
  Inability or incapability of enduring, or of being endured. Wyclif.
• IMMODERATION
  Want of moderation. Hallywell.
• DISALLOWANCE
  The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection. Syn. -- Disapprobation; prohibition; condemnation; censure; rejection.
• UNSUFFERABLE
  Insufferable. Hooker. -- Un*suf"fer*a*bly, adv.
• INSUFFERABLE
  1. Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold, or pain; insufferable wrongs. Locke. 2. Offensive beyond endurance; detestable. A multitude of scribblers who daily pester
• LONG-SUFFERING
  Bearing injuries or provocation for a long time; patient; not easily provoked. The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth. Ex. xxxiv. 6.