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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /tɒləˈɹeɪʃən/

名詞

toleration (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 tolerations)

1. (obsolete) Endurance of evil, suffering etc.
2. The allowance of something not explicitly approved; tolerance, forbearance.
3. Specifically, the allowance by a government (または other ruling power) of the exercise of religion beyond the state established faith.
   • 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 86:

     Above all, the establishment of toleration helped to weaken the presumption that plurality in matters of faith inevitably caused social disorder.

派生語

Further reading

• Toleration on Wikipedia.
• Toleration in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)