单词 | intolerance |
释义 | intolerancen. 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > impatience > [noun] > inability to tolerate or endure something intolerancy1623 intolerance1765 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > weakness of character or will > incapacity of endurance or intolerance intolerableness1598 intolerancy1623 intolerance1765 1765 R. Lowth Let. to Warburton 62 You, my Lord, is it You of all men living, that stand forth to accuse another of Intolerance of Opinions! 1844 W. Dufton Nature & Treatm. Deafness 81 Attended with tinnitus aurium, and great intolerance of sound. 1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. v. 237 In his intolerance of supposed official peculation, [he] inflicted severe punishment before its justice was undeniably established. 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > bigotry, intolerance > [noun] intoleration1611 bigotry1616 intolerancy1623 bigotism1632 intolerance1790 shut-mindedness1933 chauvinism1955 fascism1958 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 166 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. View more context for this quotation 1809–10 S. T. Coleridge 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. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. xxxii. 273 Intolerance, as usual, kept pace with superstition and fanaticism. 1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. iv. 171 The great antagonist of intolerance is not humanity, but Knowledge. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1765 |
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