Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of toleration; intolerance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Intolerance; lack of toleration; refusal to tolerate a difference of opinion.
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- noun dated
intolerance
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Examples
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Re "intoleration" — I've just tested its alleged non-existence.
On tolerating DC 2008
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Interesting, also, that some of the hits for 'intoleration' are people actually querying whether the word exists.
On tolerating DC 2008
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Google claims "about 10,700" instances of the word "intoleration" — on Google's first page of "intoleration" results, the instances include several dictionary definitions of the word.
On tolerating DC 2008
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It sure would bring a new level of understanding to our world of intoleration.
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I hesitate to leap on the paranoid bus and say the media is actively suppressing knowledge of how crazy Hagee is in order to prop up McCain, but if Bruce Wilson's documentation of Hagee's intoleration - and McCain's refusal to dissociate himself with him - doesn't lead to headlines and tv news stories, then there is little choice but to think They are up to no good.
Hullabaloo 2008
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Dissidents: I am sure I wish them success; for I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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But as it was, we felt it would be an unnecessary exposure, besides the missionary field being much more limited, in consequence of intoleration.
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"So he is," interrupted Talleyrand; "but he abhors intoleration and persecution" (not in politics).
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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Spiritual insight is blinded by carnal desire; conduct is influenced by unbridled license; bigotry and hatred are fostered by his policy of intoleration; and his followers are enslaved by a tyranny that blights the reason, because it discountenances inquiry, and places an insurmountable barrier in the way of all human progress.
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But it was a bone and muscle antagonist; it was an entity -- a thing upon which one might hurl oneself and spend one's bitter intoleration.
Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans
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