In*tol"er*ance (?), n. [L. intolerantia impatience, unendurableness: cf. F. intol'erance.]
1.
Want 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; want 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.
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