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tolerable | toleration |

As an adjective tolerable

is tolerable (capable of being borne, tolerated or endured; bearable or endurable).

As a noun toleration is

(obsolete) endurance of evil, suffering etc.

tolerable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of being borne, tolerated or endured; bearable or endurable.
  • Moderate in degree; mediocre; passable, acceptable or so-so.
  • Such as to be tolerated]] or [[countenance, countenanced; permissible; allowable.
  • In fair health; passably well.

    • Antonyms

    * intolerable

    Derived terms

    * intolerable * tolerability * tolerableness * tolerablish * tolerably

    Related terms

    * tolerance * tolerant * tolerate

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (dialect) tolerably; passably; moderately.
    • ----

    toleration

    English

    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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