Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Previous adjustment or arrangement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Previous adjustment.
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- noun
previous adjustment
Etymologies
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pre- + adjustment
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Examples
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In the one case, we _know_ that there is an erroneous preadjustment; and we can scarcely doubt that there is one in the other.
The Philosophy of Style Herbert Spencer 1861
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