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Toleration Act(encyclopedia)
toleration(dictionary)
TOLERATION(law)

toleration (iou)



toleration noun. L15.
[French toleration from Latin toleratio(n-), formed as TOLERATE: see -ATION.]
a. The action of allowing something or granting permission by authority; licence. L15-E18.
b. spec. Licence to gather oysters or maintain oyster-beds. US local. L18.
a. The action of enduring or bearing pain, hardship, etc. M16-E17.
b. Physiology. = TOLERANCE noun 1b. Now rare or obsolete. L19.
The action or practice of finding something endurable or accepting something without protest; adoption of a liberal attitude; forbearance, tolerance. L16.
spec. State sanction for the expression of religious opinion or freedom to practise forms of religion at variance from those officially established or recognized. E17.
Act of Toleration an act or statute granting religious toleration; spec. (English History) a bill of 1689 by which freedom of religious worship was granted, on certain prescribed conditions, to Dissenting Protestants.
= TOLERANCE noun 4a. L19.
Comb.: Toleration Act = Act of Toleration (see sense 4 above).
tolerationism noun (rare) the principles or practice of religious toleration L19.
tolerationist noun an advocate or supporter of religious toleration M19.