- 1（宗教、思想上的）寬容、容忍（多用於歷史、政治脈絡）
Letting people believe, worship, or live differently from you without punishing or attacking them for it. The word is historical and political above all: 'religious toleration' is the standard phrase, and you meet it in history books about Europe, where states decided to stop persecuting people of other faiths. It sits in formal writing — law, history, political theory — and rarely in conversation. Compare 'tolerance', which is the everyday word and covers personal attitudes ('tolerance of other cultures') as well as bodies and machines ('a tolerance for alcohol'). Toleration is the narrower, more official one: a policy, a decision, something granted. There's also a cool edge worth noticing — to tolerate something is to allow it, not to welcome it, so toleration is a lower bar than acceptance, and some writers criticise it for exactly that.
組成From Latin tolerō, 'to bear, endure', through Middle French. The Latin root is about carrying a weight — you put up with something because you can bear it, not because you like it. Compare 'tolerance', which comes from the same verb.
同家族的字
- toleratesame Latin tolerō — to bear or endure
- tolerancesame root; the everyday sister word
- tolerablesame root — bearable
- intolerantsame root with 'in-' meaning not
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
tolerationnoun/tɒləˈɹeɪʃən/
- 1
obsoleteEndurance of evil, suffering etc.
- 2
The allowance of something not explicitly approved; tolerance, forbearance.
- 3
Specifically, the allowance by a government (or other ruling power) of the exercise of religion beyond the state established faith.
- Above all, the establishment of toleration helped to weaken the presumption that plurality in matters of faith inevitably caused social disorder.
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