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intolerance|ɪnˈtɒlərəns|
[ad. L. intolerāntia impatience, unendurableness, f. intolerānt-em intolerant: cf. F. intolérance ‘impatiencie’ (Cotgr.).]
The fact or quality of being intolerant.
1. The fact or habit of not tolerating or enduring (something); inability, or unwillingness, to tolerate or endure some particular thing; incapacity of endurance. Const. of.
1765Lowth Lett. to Warburton 62 You, my Lord, is it You of all men living, that stand forth to accuse another of Intolerance of Opinions! 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India I. 237 In his intolerance of supposed official peculation, [he] inflicted severe punishment before its justice was undeniably established. 1844Dufton Deafness 81 Attended with tinnitus aurium, and great intolerance of sound.
2. spec. Absence of tolerance for difference of opinion or practice, esp. in religious matters; denial of the right to differ; narrow-minded or bigoted opposition to dissent.
1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 209 Nothing was wanted but the power of carrying the intolerance of the tongue and of the pen into a persecution which would strike at property, liberty, and life. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 20 If any temptation can provoke a well-regulated temper to intolerance, it is the shameless assertion, that truth and false⁓hood are indifferent in their own natures. 1838Thirlwall Greece xxxii. IV. 273 Intolerance, as usual, kept pace with superstition and fanaticism. 1857Buckle Civiliz. I. iv. 171 The great antagonist of intolerance is not humanity, but Knowledge. |