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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

... the few times that the old Squire really reproved us sternly. Often, of course, he had to caution us a little, or speak to us about our conduct; but he usually did it in an easy, tolerant way, ending with a laugh or a joke. But that time he was ...

— A Busy Year at the Old Squire's • Charles Asbury Stephens

... awake Fred Starratt felt next morning. He was full of tingling reactions to the sharp chill of disillusionment. At the breakfast table he met his wife's advances with an air of tolerant aloofness. In the past, the first moves toward adjusting a misunderstanding had come usually from him. He had an aptitude for kindling the fires of domestic harmony, but he had discovered overnight the futility of fanning a hearthstone blaze when ...

— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie

... of the best minds. It should be a "Thirty years' war" against sloth and neglect. It requires men who will persevere through public favour or disfavour, who can subdue their own fastidiousness, be indifferent to ingratitude, tolerant of folly, who can endure the extreme vexation of seeing their most highly prized endeavours thwarted by well intentioned friends, and who are not dependent for reward upon those things which are addressed to ...

— The Claims of Labour - an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed • Arthur Helps

... and by preference filled them with men of Roman birth. His chief counselors were Romans. A legal code, which he drew up for the use of Ostrogoths and Romans alike, contained only selections from Roman law. He was remarkably tolerant and, in spite of the fact that the Ostrogoths were Arians, [2] was always ready to extend protection to Catholic Christians. Theodoric patronized literature and gave high positions to Roman writers. He restored the cities of Italy, ...

— EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUTTON WEBSTER

... the Prince of Orange, removed to Amsterdam. For although the Prince insisted most earnestly and vigorously that religious toleration should be extended to the Catholics, and that no one should suffer for their religion, all were not so tolerant; and when the news arrived of wholesale massacres of Protestants by Alva's troops, the lower class were apt to rise in riot, and to retaliate by the destruction of the property of the ...

— By Pike and Dyke: A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic • G.A. Henty

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