Definition of "toleration" []

• Tolerance with respect to the actions and beliefs of others: "Toleration . . . is the greatest gift of the mind” ( Helen Keller). (noun)
• Official recognition of the rights of individuals and groups to hold dissenting opinions, especially on religion. (noun)

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• "And, as we are constantly told, the only way to show toleration is to give over more tax money to fund activists, programs, events, and advertising."
• "Such support, so contrary to American principles of freedom and toleration, is widely interpreted in the region as indifference to the suffering of ordinary Arabs in the Middle East ..."
• "They point, with some appearance of wisdom, to the tolerance chown in Great Britain in dealing with Communism and urge that that toleration is the best remedy."