Tolerance of commonplace remark? Not the first (8)
I believe the answer is:
latitude
'tolerance' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'commonplace remark? not the first' is the wordplay.
'commonplace remark?' becomes 'platitude' (a platitude is a cliched or commonplace remark).
'not the first' means to remove the first letter.
'platitude' with its first letter taken off is 'LATITUDE'.
'of' is the link.
(Other definitions for latitude that I've seen before include "seen the world over" , "global cover to some degree?" , "comes by degrees?" , "Distance from pole" , "range" .)