"tolerance"

[Herb Stahlke]

On today's Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan has a piece on "tolerance"
(http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/04/tolerance.html)
in which quotes, and seems to accept, the claim that the act of
tolerating entails disapproval of what one tolerates.  I've heard this
claim before, but I don't find this sense in either the OED Online or
Merriam-Webster Online, although MW does allow that inference.  I
wonder if the sense of entailed disapproval comes from the use of
"tolerate" with negation.  "We won't tolerate such behavior" obviously
implies disapproval of the behavior.

Herb

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