[f. as prec. + -OR.] One who tolerates.
1706. A. Shields, Inquiry Ch. Commun. (1747), 29. By that bargain and confederacy with the tolerator.
1791–1823. Disraeli, Curios. Lit., Toleration. To this moment it is far from being clear, either to the tolerators, or the tolerated.
1826. Sir T. F. Buxton, in Mem. (1872), 90. If not a lover of the vices of the world, at least a tolerator of its vanities.
1884. Macm. Mag., Nov., 22/2. The moderate Conservatives or tolerators of progress.
