Patience vs Toleration - What's the difference?
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The quality of being patient.
Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US. (card game).
(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:
Patience is a related term of toleration.
As a proper noun patience
is .As a noun toleration is
(obsolete) endurance of evil, suffering etc.patience
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* impatienceExternal links
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*garden patience ----toleration
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- Above all, the establishment of toleration helped to weaken the presumption that plurality in matters of faith inevitably caused social disorder.