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Tolerate

verb

(past & past part. tolerated; pres. part. tolerating)

Put up with something or somebody unpleasant. Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support. "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks" , "He learned to tolerate the heat" , "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

Recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others).

Have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition.

Allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting. Synonyms: allow, permit. "Children are not permitted beyond this point" , "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital"

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"Tolerate" Quotes from Famous Books

... I will teach her to will, I. And if she will not by fair means, then she shall by foul. I tolerate no disobedience, not I; and this I mean to teach in the most serious manner; and if she does not wish to experience this, why then I advise her to rise at six o'clock, boil my coffee, and bring it me ...

— Strife and Peace • Fredrika Bremer

... gratification of evil passions, or the depravation of manners, the fault is in that public opinion which calls for and encourages such gratification, and in those governments which, neglecting their paramount duty, tolerate such perversion.—Ibid. ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 17, No. 477, Saturday, February 19, 1831 • Various

... words formed the sentimental appendage which she had assured him she could tolerate, and which he hoped ...

— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy

... for Owen that he had his enthusiasm for 'the cause' to occupy his mind. Socialism was to him what drink was to some of the others—the thing that enable them to forget and tolerate the conditions under which they were forced to exist. Some of them were so muddled with beer, and others so besotted with admiration of their Liberal and Tory masters, that they were oblivious of the misery of their own lives, and in a similar ...

— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... hate the tyranny they had abolished that it is said they all, the nobles as well as the commons, bound themselves by most solemn oaths never again to tolerate a king. We shall hereafter see how well this vow was kept ...

— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers

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