Obs. rare–1. [irreg. f. L. toler-āre to TOLERATE + -ISM.] = TOLERATIONISM.
1851. Borrow, Lavengro, iii. Thou wouldst be sadly out of place in these days of … universal tolerism.
[1851. Fraser’s Mag., XLIII. 283/1. How can this master of words [Borrow] justify such a barbarous bit of patchwork as ‘tolerism?’]
