official recognition of the right of individuals to hold dissenting opinions (especially in religion) a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations; "all people should practice toleration and live together in peace
willingness to allow people to believe what they want without being criticized or punished
Specifically, the allowance of religious opinions and modes of worship in a state when contrary to, or different from, those of the established church or belief
official recognition of the right of individuals to hold dissenting opinions (especially in religion)
(1689) Act of the British Parliament that granted freedom of worship to Nonconformists, allowing them their own places of worship and their own teachers and preachers. The act did not apply to Catholics and Unitarians and continued the existing social and political prohibitions, such as exclusion from political office, that applied to dissenters from the Church of England