toleration
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It will be said, those tolerations were gained by force of arms.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir
Lauderdale drifted into a policy of alternate “Indulgences” or tolerations, and of repression, which had the desired effect, at the maximum of cost to justice and decency.
From A Short History of Scotland by Lang, Andrew
“We may now,” he says, “place side by side the three tolerations of Maryland.”
From The Faith of Our Fathers by Gibbons, James
You will find these tolerations and affections guiding or sustaining him to the last hour of his life; the notablest of all such endurances being that of dirt.
From Selections From the Works of John Ruskin by Ruskin, John
This cannot be done apart from tolerations the causes of which are laws of divine providence.
From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Wunsch, William F.
Vocabulary lists containing toleration
European Colonization of North America, Lessons 3–5
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Chapters 7–9
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