Meanings
- not comparableNot reckoned; not counted or measured.
In subsequent Zuckerman novels we learned that Nathan went on to achieve a very un-Lonoff-like fame with a scandalous best seller (not unlike Mr. Roth’s own “Portnoy’s Complaint”) that cut him off from his family and his past, and forced him to grapple with the unreckoned consequences of his art.
2007 October 2, Michiko Kakutani, “Seeking a Moral at the End of the Tale”, in New York Times
Origin
- Middle Englishunrekind
- Englishunreckoned
From Middle English unrekind, unrekend; equivalent to un- + reckoned.
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