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Tolerate
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices. Crying should not be tolerated in children. Locke. We tolerate them because property and liberty, to a degree, require that toleration. Burke.
Synonyms: See Permit.