self-ad|just|ment

self-ad|just|ment
self-ad|just|ment «SEHLF uh JUHST muhnt», noun.
adjustment of oneself or itself: »

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes sagely commented that when competent men engage in speculation, it is “the self-adjustment of society to the probable” (Time).


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