A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1651-1668
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(Tolerating,) Tollerating, vbl. n. [Tolerat v.] The act of permitting or allowing. —1651 Inverurie 318.
Norman Davidson and James Fergus … are delait for tollerating their children to sweir and curse and that without interrupting of them 1668 Edinb. Surgeons II 30.
Any bygane transgresiounes of her in tollerating and overseing unfrie men … within hir chope
