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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

... all his recitatives with the orchestra. These accompaniments are generally in bad taste; they drown the voice rather than support it, and force the singers to scream and howl in a manner which no ear of any delicacy can tolerate. We come away from an opera of Rameau's intoxicated with harmony and stupefied with the noise of voice and instruments. His taste is always Gothic, and, whether his subject is light or forcible, his style is equally heavy. He was not destitute of ideas, but did not know what use to ...

— Great Italian and French Composers • George T. Ferris

... the soil; fairies mark its solitude. As surely as the wolf retires before cities does the fairy sequester herself from the haunts of the licensed victualer. A village is too much for her nervous delicacy: at most, she can tolerate a distant view of a hamlet. We may judge, therefore, by the uneasiness and extra trouble which they gave to the parson, in what strength the fairies mustered at Domremy, and, by a satisfactory consequence, ...

— Journeys Through Bookland - Volume Four • Charles H. Sylvester

... disagreeable people indeed belonged to the period she mentally referred to as his "past," she was not going to tolerate them for an instant. He must give ...

— The Helpmate • May Sinclair

... come back to see his auntie, but that would not satisfy the watchers, since, so far as they knew, he was the only man outside the gang who was aware that people were dwelling in the House. They would not tolerate ...

— Huntingtower • John Buchan

... day, when we talked together of the things of the spirit. It is one of his own confessions that he was fond of clergymen. Most preachers are supposed to be helplessly tied up with such a set of limitations that there are but a few jokes which they may tolerate, and a small number of delights into which they may enter. Doubtless many a cheerful soul likes to meet such of the clergy, in order that the worldling may feel the contrast of liberty with bondage, and demonstrate ...

— Songs and Other Verse • Eugene Field

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