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unwillingness to accept differing views; bodily inability to endure something
Religious intolerance fueled the long civil war.
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From Latin intolerantia ('impatience, unendurableness'), from intolerans ('not enduring'), from in- ('not') + tolerans, present participle of tolerare ('to bear, endure').
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