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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intolerance
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 uncorrelated with racial intolerance or support for segregation.
▪ But other forces need to be considered. Racial intolerance and racism are probably greater than Scarman assumed.
religious
▪ It could have defended the frontiers, repressed religious intolerance and done something to accelerate economic and intellectual progress.
▪ No aristocrats these, but peasants threatened by the religious intolerance of the revolutionary authorities in Paris.
▪ The destruction of temples now appears as in accordance with Xerxes' religious intolerance, which may indeed have helped to cause the revolt.
▪ Three of these are of major significance: scientism, relativism and religious intolerance.
■ NOUN
food
▪ Menopause symptoms are similar to those of food intolerance and may in fact be triggered off by hormone changes.
▪ More undigested food molecules pass through the gut wall than in healthy individuals, making food intolerance much more likely.
▪ Signs of food intolerance to look out for include skin rashes and loose watery stools.
▪ Some of those who are dismissive of food intolerance, see hyperventilation as a widespread cause of vague, multiple symptoms.
▪ At present, there is no good explanation for the link between candidiasis, food intolerance and chemical sensitivity.
▪ These dummy challenges are also known as placebos. Food intolerance or psychosomatic illness?
▪ Not surprisingly, some of these patients are thought to have food intolerance.
glucose
▪ Prospective studies have also been performed in subjects with impaired glucose intolerance.
▪ The degree of glucose intolerance for any given birth weight was influenced independently by body mass index in adulthood.
lactose
▪ They may be at the root of colic, which is why lactose intolerance is important here.
▪ Many say, for example, that lactose intolerance is mostly in the minds of consumers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Many of our friends' lives have been shattered by intolerance, persecution and torture.
▪ Religious intolerance has always been a major cause of war.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intolerance

Intolerance \In*tol"er*ance\ ([i^]n*t[o^]l"[~e]r*ans), n. [L. intolerantia impatience, unendurableness: cf. F. intol['e]rance.]

  1. Lack of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.

  2. The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of worship, and the like; lack of patience and forbearance; illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a religious sect.

    These few restrictions, I hope, are no great stretches of intolerance, no very violent exertions of despotism.
    --Burke.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intolerance

"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 in same sense from 1620s.

Wiktionary
intolerance

n. (context uncountable English) The state of being intolerant.

WordNet
intolerance
  1. n. impatience with annoyances; "his intolerance of interruptions"

  2. unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs [ant: tolerance]

Wikipedia
Intolerance (film)

Intolerance is a 1916 epic silent film directed by D. W. Griffith. Subtitles include Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages and A Sun-Play of the Ages.

Widely regarded as one of the great masterpieces of the silent era, as well as one of the first art films, the three-and-a-half-hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines, each separated by several centuries: (1) a contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption, (2) a Judean story: Christ's mission and death, (3) a French story: the events surrounding the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572, and (4) a Babylonian story: the fall of the Babylonian Empire to Persia in 539 BC. Each story had its own distinctive color tint in the original print. The scenes are linked by shots of a figure representing Eternal Motherhood, rocking a cradle.

Intolerance was made partly in response to criticism of Griffith's previous film, The Birth of a Nation (1915), which was criticized by the NAACP and other groups as perpetuating racial stereotypes and glorifying the Ku Klux Klan. It was not, as is commonly implied, an apology for the racism of his earlier film. In numerous interviews, Griffith made clear that the film's title and overriding themes were meant as a response to those who he felt had been intolerant of him in condemning The Birth of a Nation. In the years following its release, Intolerance would strongly influence European film movements despite its lack of commercial success domestically.

Intolerance (album)

Intolerance is the first solo album from Grant Hart, formerly of the band Hüsker Dü.

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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.