Brewer's: Eternal Fitness of Things

The congruity between an action and the agent.

“Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right, and the eternal fitness of things?” —Fielding: Tom Jones, book iv. chap. iv.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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