toleration

toleration
toleration (n.) 1510s, "permission granted by authority, license," from M.Fr. tolération (15c.), from L. tolerationem (nom. toleratio) "a bearing, supporting, enduring," noun of action from pp. stem of tolerare "to tolerate, lit. "to bear" (see EXTOL (Cf. extol)). Meaning "forbearance, sufferance" is from 1580s. Religious sense is from Act of Toleration, statute granting freedom of religious worship (with conditions) to dissenting Protestants in England, 1689.

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