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The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved.

Intolerance; want of toleration; refusal to tolerate a difference of opinion.

Its distinctive character is the desire of comprehension. Its watch words are charity and toleration. Conybeare.

ne, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation. A draught of a Toleration Act was offered to the Parliament by a private member. Macaulay. No picture or draught of these things from the report of the eye. South.

. Shak. Edict of Nantes (French Hist.), an edict issued by Henry IV. (A. D. 1598), giving toleration to Protestants. Its revocation by Louis XIV. (A. D. 1685) was followed by terrible persecutions and the expatriation of thousands of French Protestants.

Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave. Shak. In their beginning they are weak and wan, But soon, through sufferance, grow to fearful end. Spenser. Somewhiles by sufferance, and somewhiles by special leave and favor, they erected to themselves oratories. Hooker.…

presence or actions of objectionable persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions; toleration.

Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; ingulgent.

children. Locke. We tolerate them because property and liberty, to a degree, require that toleration. Burke.

ories, and the advocates of popular rights, of parliamentary power over the crown, and of toleration to Dissenters, were, after 1679, called Whigs. The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in English politics. See the note under Tory.