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How to pronounce “tolerance”
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Pronunciation guide for tolerance
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- Practice the English pronunciation of tolerance with real speech in context.
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- Reclaim Ownership of Christianity
Belief in progress, tolerance, individual freedom, and the essential
- Definition summary
- (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance. [15th–19th c.]
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How to pronounce tolerance
Reclaim Ownership of Christianity

Belief in progress, tolerance, individual freedom, and the essential
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “tolerance”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance. [15th–19th c.]
- (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry. [from 18th c.]
- (uncountable) The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism. [from 19th c.]
- (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement. [from 20th c.]
- (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection. [from 20th c.]
- [Verb]
- To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance. [from 1912]
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