tolerance

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TOL'ERANCE, noun [Latin tolerantia, from tolero, to bear.] The power or capacity of enduring; or the act of enduring. Diogenes one frosty morning came to the market place shaking, to show his tolerance [Little used. But intolerance is in common use.]
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