( n. )
The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is such as to produce the highest good.
( n. )
The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is such as to produce the highest good.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012