Toleration
[tɒlə'reɪʃ(ə)n] or ['tɑlə'reʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) official recognition of the right of individuals to hold dissenting opinions (especially in religion).
(noun.) a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations; 'all people should practice toleration and live together in peace'.
編輯:塔比瑟--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Hence, freedom from bigotry and severity in judgment of the opinions or belief of others, especially in respect to religious matters.
編輯:弗吉尼亚
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Endurance, sufferance, tolerance.[2]. License (for free opinion in religious matters), permission, allowance.[3]. Catholicity, liberality, impartiality, candor, magnanimity, high-mindedness, largeness of mind.
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例句/造句/用法:
- In truth, I was a Martian chieftain, and this I learned later was the cause of my great freedom and my toleration in the audience chamber. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Traddles is a good fellow,' returned my host nodding his head with an air of toleration. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Differences in religious method and in ideas of toleration led to the separation of the three other Puritan colonies from Massachusetts. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Under Jengis, we may note further, we find the completest religious toleration established across the entire breadth of Asia. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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