reckoning

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of reckon

plural reckonings

1. countableuncountableThe action of calculating or estimating something.

   By that reckoning, it would take six weeks to go five miles.

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   So saying, he called for a reckoning for the wine, and throwing down the price of the additional bottle which he had himself introduced, rose as if to take leave of us.

   1817, Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy

   When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.

   1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

   He affirms that the deluge of Ogyges happened just one thousand and twenty years before the first Olympiad, from which the Greeks dated their exact reckoning.

   1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 185

   Synonyms: calculation

2. countableuncountableAn opinion or judgement.

   day of reckoning

3. countableuncountableA summing up or appraisal.

   The research presented in this paper is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reckoning of an expanding set of portmanteau terms based on the word English.

   2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 18

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   My mother's father was a small-town school teacher, an occupation with somewhat more status (teachers are petit bourgeois by the standard reckoning) which nevertheless provided little more income than on my father's side.

   1984 February 4, David Morris, “Different Origins: Joto Güero del West Side”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 15

4. countableuncountableThe settlement of accounts, as between parties.
5. countableuncountableThe working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.
6. archaiccountableuncountableThe bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.
7. archaiccountableuncountableRank or status.