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The term "toleration"—from the Latin tolerare: to put up with, countenance or suffer generally refers to the conditional acceptance of or non-interference with beliefs, actions or practices that one considers to be wrong but still "tolerable," such that they should not be prohibited or constrained.

His theological arguments achieved a measure of toleration from the emperor Michael II (ruled 820 829).

And, after Nazi extermination and Soviet repression, the anti-Semitism that made life tenuous for Ukraine's Jews has at last given way to toleration from gentiles and even, at times, enthusiasm among those gentiles keen to rediscover the Jewish past.

He transformed the Great Church at Kolozsvár into a centre of anti-Trinitarianism, introduced Unitarianism at the court, secured state toleration from the Transylvanian Diet through the Edict of Torda (1568), and won many converts.

Also, what do you see as the consequences of an Israeli-led attack on the facilities of Iran with backing from the U.S. and the at best tacit toleration from the E.U.? Patrick Walsh, Riverside, Ill.: I did not expect to see you jump on the Rumsfeld-bashing bandwagon.

After banishment from England by a suspicious Parliament in 1649, he was allowed to return in 1654 and tried to obtain full toleration for Catholics from Oliver Cromwell.

For example, Toleration Letters from various rulers gave Jews the right to live outside the ghettos into which they had been segregated for almost 500 years.

In 313 an edict of toleration for all religions was issued, and from about 320 Christianity was favoured by the Roman state rather than persecuted by it.

Earlier thinkers he cites on justice and toleration come less from fourth-century Athens or 17th-century England than from India, where he was born 75 years ago.

The Scottish defeats in the subsequent Second and Third civil wars, led to English occupation and incorporation in a Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland led by Oliver Cromwell from 1652 and the imposition of religious toleration for Protestants.

Contrary to the once-popular notion that religious toleration rose steadily from the Middle Ages through the Protestant Reformation and on to the Enlightenment, Mr. Kaplan maintains that religious toleration declined from around 1550 to 1750.