Toleration - What does it mean?
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(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:
toleration
English
Noun
- Above all, the establishment of toleration helped to weaken the presumption that plurality in matters of faith inevitably caused social disorder.