reckoning
/ˈɹɛkənɪŋ/ noun C1- The action of calculating or estimating something. · By that reckoning, it would take six weeks to go five miles.
- An opinion or judgement. · day of reckoning
- A summing up or appraisal.
- The settlement of accounts, as between parties.
- The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.
Plural reckonings
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A THIEF hired a room in a tavern and stayed a while in the hope of stealing something which should enable him to pay his reckoning.
This visit had infused new vigor into Dantès; he had, till then, forgotten the date; but now, with a fragment of plaster, he wrote the date, 30th July, 1816, and made a mark every day, in order not to lose his reckoning again.
“Without reckoning the wholly unexpected one I am preparing to surprise them with.”
“It is a charming place, well supplied with spring-water and fine trees; a comfortable habitation, although abandoned for a long time, without reckoning the furniture, which, although old, is yet valuable, now that old things are so much sought after.
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