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tolerance
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Tolerance is an outdoor 2011 aluminum sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa , installed along Buffalo Bayou in Houston , Texas, in the United States. It consists of seven separate wire frame human figures on granite pedestals.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "endurance, fortitude" (in the face of pain, hardship, etc.), from Old French tolerance (14c.), from Latin tolerantia "a bearing, supporting, endurance," from tolerans , present participle of tolerare "to bear, endure, tolerate" (see toleration ...
Usage examples of tolerance.
Royalist critics on the Right charged that his mediating, unifying role as National Guard commander was hopelessly undercut by his advocacy of natural rights and his tolerance of popular movements that could lead only to social disintegration.
It gave tolerances in engineering terms, defining what a barbie could look like.
The second time around choosing a bisexual man an old friend with a secret of his own, whom she could turn to for companionship and mutual tolerance and the outward appearance of married bliss.
But her native armor crumbled, strained beyond tolerance, and she flung herself onto her cot, curled up in a ball and gave in to gut wrenching sobs.
The empress did not practise the sublime virtue of tolerance for what is called illegitimate love, and in her excessive devotion she thought that her persecutions of the most natural inclinations in man and woman were very agreeable to God.
AA sponsor like to remind Gately how this new resident Geoffrey Day could end up being an invaluable teacher of patience and tolerance for him, Gately, as Ennet House Staff.
His fleeting smile suggested weary tolerance of a question which, while both gratuitous and stupid, managed to evoke pain.
The autonomy of the rational Ego had to be fought for, had to be actively secured against all those forces of heteronomy that constantly were at work to pull it down from its worldcentric stance of universal tolerance and benevolence.
The twins, inured to his frequent appearances in Hill Street, accepted him with much the same contemptuous tolerance as they would have felt for an over-fed lap-dog which their mama chose to encourage.
I have shown remarkable tolerance in permitting Kelter and the girl to come here to live, and I am not a man given to tolerant actions.
The other members of my family became infested as well, although they seemed to have fewer lice and a greater tolerance for this petty torture than I did.
I had gone over to Mohair that day with a hope that some good reason was at the bottom of her tolerance for him, and had come back without any hope.
Kaiser reason to thank heaven that he was born in the comparative freedom and Laodicean tolerance of Kingship, and not in the Calvinistic bigotry and pedantry of Marxism.
I have seen the House convulsed with raillery which, in other society, would infallibly settle the rallier to be a bore beyond all tolerance.
So Selar had tolerated her presence, and that tolerance had actually developed into a form of friendship.