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Tolerant

adjective

Showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others.

Tolerant and forgiving under provocation. Synonym: kind.

Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness. Synonyms: broad, large-minded, liberal. "Generous and broad sympathies" , "A liberal newspaper" , "Tolerant of his opponent's opinions"

Able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress. Synonym: resistant. "These fish are quite tolerant as long as extremes of pH are avoided" , "The new hybrid is more resistant to drought"

Showing the capacity for endurance. Synonym: patient of. "A man patient of distractions"

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"Tolerant" Quotes from Famous Books

... had agreed to the investigation, watching him prowl among the files with the same tolerant attitude she would have entertained toward Luke had he insisted that he could run the household more ...

— The Gorgeous Girl • Nalbro Bartley

... and Purdy exchanged a tolerant smile. They were above arguing that outworn thesis. Dave turned ...

— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson

... to be regretted that this poetical conception was not carried out; like the author's other writings, it might have abounded with pictures of life and touches of nature drawn from his own observation and experience, and mellowed by his own humane and tolerant spirit; and might have been a worthy companion or rather contrast to his Traveler and Deserted Village, and have remained in the language a first-rate specimen ...

— Oliver Goldsmith • Washington Irving

... eyes, the stones have ears. But consider these words written in bated breath! The worst of it is—I gather from common report—this infidel is a Cheerful Infidel, whereas a true infidel should bear upon his face the living mark of his infamy. We are all tolerant enough of those who do not agree with us, provided only they are sufficiently miserable! I confess when I first heard of him—through Mrs. Horace (with shudders)—I was possessed of a consuming secret desire to see ...

— Adventures In Contentment • David Grayson

... affection; fidelity to principles and to friends. He used often to speak of the moral obligation laid upon every man to think truly, as well as to speak and act truly, and said that much intellectual demoralization and ruin resulted from neglecting this. He was absolutely tolerant of all difference of opinion, so that it was sincere; and this was all the more remarkable from his being the opposite of an indifferentist, being very strong in his own convictions, holding them keenly, ...

— Spare Hours • John Brown

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