Noun
The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved.
Specifically, the allowance of religious opinions and modes of worship in a state when contrary to, or different from, those of the established church or belief.
Hence, freedom from bigotry and severity in judgment of the opinions or belief of others, especially in respect to religious matters.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAt the same time, like Russian state propaganda, it portrayed China as a savior while silencing the disastrous situation at home: shortages, lack of functioning infrastructure, toleration of wet markets, even blatant racism. Source: Internet
Burke wrote that he wanted to represent the whole Whig party "as tolerating, and by a toleration, countenancing those proceedings" so that he could "stimulate them to a public declaration of what every one of their acquaintance privately knows to be. Source: Internet
Diocletian's persecution of Christians was repudiated and changed to a policy of toleration and then favoritism. Source: Internet
Broad toleration for other religions made little sense to Europeans forged in the heat of religious conflict, while the lifestyle and pretensions Jahangir afforded himself meant that it was difficult to see him as a devout Muslim. Source: Internet
For the time being, moderates who hoped to find a way of compromise and to repress the underlying issue of slavery itself – its toleration or non-toleration by a great free Christian state – were overwhelmingly in the majority. Source: Internet
Cadwallader, 1923, p. 83. Part of the evidence showed that he was in favour of toleration of religious dissent. Source: Internet