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Acceptation vs Toleration - What's the difference?

acceptation | toleration |

In obsolete terms the difference between acceptation and toleration

is that acceptation is acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; the state of being acceptable while toleration is endurance of evil, suffering etc.

acceptation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; the state of being acceptable.
  • * 1676 , , The Second Book of Eccle?ia?tical Polity'', in ''The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, in Eight Books of Eccle?ia?tical Polity , page 122,
    • Finally, ?ome things although not ?o required of nece??ity, that to leave them undone excludeth from Salvation, are notwith?tanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God, that mo?t ample reward in Heaven is laid up for them.
  • * 1769 , Oxford Standard text, , i, 15,
    • This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation , that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
  • The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received.
    • The term is to be used according to its usual acceptation .
  • * 1731 January 30, , editor), ''The Craftsman , Volume VII, page 233,
    • My words, in common Acceptation , / Could never give this Provocation ;
  • Ready belief.

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    toleration

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    Noun

  • (obsolete) Endurance of evil, suffering etc.
  • The allowance of something not explicitly approved; tolerance, forbearance.
  • Specifically, the allowance by a government (or other ruling power) of the exercise of religion beyond the state established faith.
  • * 2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 86:
    • Above all, the establishment of toleration helped to weaken the presumption that plurality in matters of faith inevitably caused social disorder.

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