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intolerance
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. impatience with annoyances; "his intolerance of interruptions" unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs [ant: tolerance ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Intolerance is the first solo album from Grant Hart , formerly of the band Hüsker Dü .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE racial ▪ Other factors contributing to a negative view of Britain were the royal family, violence in Northern Ireland and racial intolerance . ▪ Even more important, the pace of disengagement among whites has been ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intolerance \In*tol"er*ance\ ([i^]n*t[o^]l"[~e]r*ans), n. [L. intolerantia impatience, unendurableness: cf. F. intol['e]rance.] Lack of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light. The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to others the enjoyment ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"unwillingness to endure a differing opinion," 1765, from Latin intolerantia "impatience, unendurableness, insufferableness, insolence," from intolerantem (see intolerant ). Especially of religious matters through mid-19c. Now-obsolete intolerancy was used ...
Usage examples of intolerance.
But to young Josiah Quincy, who came by frequently to visit, Adams spoke with regret of the intolerance of Christians.
We demand that the Jetboy memorial be torn down and in its place a facility built to provide shelter and medical attention to joker victims of Amerikan intolerance.
Felix had not failed to make enemies in the Brickfields by his youthful intolerance of idleness, beggary, and drunkenness.
So Metchnikoff, after you discount his amazing illogic, his intolerance, his bullheadedness, really did discover a fact which may make life easier for suffering mankind.
And, indeed, the majority of individuals in rational societies still settle in somewhere around the mythic-rational, using all the formidable powers of rationality to prop up a particular, divisive, imperialistic mythology and an aggressively fundamentalistic program of systematic intolerance.
Child-sized but severely palsied hand turns pages of incunabular manuscripts in mathematics, alchemy, religion, and bogus political autobiography, each page comprising some articulation or defense of intolerance and hatred.
It became my credo, the central theme of my life, but if it had not been for the intolerance and pigheadedness I exhibited with such grandiosity in those years and the weird sideburns and holier-than-thou attitude that I paraded around with, I would have entered into my maturity as uninterested in the world of ideas as any other Southerner.
For the most part, the Star Kingdom refused to tolerate intolerance, although it was less self-congratulatory about it than Beowulf, but she could call to mind one or two Sphinxians who might have been prudish enough to offend.
I suppose that many a girl turns to prostitution because of such intolerance.
Where are such passages ever got by inspired apostles, or by any other men, but out of their own bloody battles with their own wild-headedness, intolerance, dislike, and resentment?
Louise thought, obscurely, that intolerance to noise did not go hand in hand with taking pleasure in the company of barmaids, for bars were not quiet places, and how did you get friendly with a barmaid unless you met her in her place of work?
The species is not scare in Italy, where the offence is not regarded with the wild and ferocious intolerance of England and Spain.
Miss Burton had not a little of the wholesome feminine intolerance for certain weaknesses in her sex.
Then twenty-two years ago, after nearly twenty years of ill-tempered confrontation with his fellow theorists, he had, with characteristic abruptness, resigned from his position at Cambridge and retreated to Launde Abbey to pursue his theories without carping interference from lesser minds, his brilliance and loud vocal intolerance of the dry, crusty world endemic to academia creating a media legend of Bohemian eccentricity in the process.
MOTHER'S AND FATHER'S DAY BANNED The effects of ultraliberalism and the intolerance it breeds can be increasingly found within the churched community.