taboo vs tolerate

taboo

adj
  • Culturally forbidden. 

  • Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention. 

noun
  • An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion. 

  • Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred. 

verb
  • To ban. 

  • To avoid. 

  • To mark as taboo. 

tolerate

verb
  • To bear, withstand. 

  • To allow or permit without explicit approval, usually if it is perceived as negative. 

How often have the words taboo and tolerate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )