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Day of reckoning   /deɪ əv rˈɛkənɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Reckoning  n.  
1.
The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically:
(a)
An account of time.
(b)
Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc. "Even reckoning makes lasting friends, and the way to make reckonings even is to make them often." "He quitted London, never to return till the day of a terrible and memorable reckoning had arrived."
2.
The charge or account made by a host at an inn. "A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning."
3.
Esteem; account; estimation. "You make no further reckoning of it (beauty) than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed."
4.
(Navigation)
(a)
The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation.
(b)
The position of a ship as determined by calculation.
To be out of her reckoning, to be at a distance from the place indicated by the reckoning; said of a ship.
day of reckoning the day or time when one must pay one's debts, fulfill one's obligations, or be punished for one's transgressions.





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"Day of reckoning" Quotes from Famous Books



... ever harder on Damascus. It was a suicidal policy; for in the continued existence of a strong Aramaean state on her north lay Israel's one hope of long life. Jeroboam II and his Prophet Jonah ought to have seen that the day of reckoning would come quickly for Samaria when once Assyria had settled ...
— The Ancient East • D. G. Hogarth
... told when Harding threw the first bits of "raw meat" into this gilded corral. I knew that he long since had cornered N.O. & G., and that he would whet the appetites of his victims as only he knew how, but I did not know that it was his day of reckoning for other "conspirators" equally as grasping as those with whom I ...
— John Henry Smith - A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life • Frederick Upham Adams
... returned to the country already eight hours after his time, and found the note was missing, he had stalwartly lied, hoping that the note was unimportant and that things would adjust themselves or be forgotten before a day of reckoning should arrive. ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson
... suggests that his poverty 'rather than rapacity may be supposed to have urged whatever of hardness there was in his proceedings.' It is credible enough that these proceedings made him highly unpopular with the native inhabitants of the district, and that they were not forgotten when the day of reckoning came. 'His name,' says Mr. Hardiman, on the authority of Trotter's Walks in Ireland,{3} 'is still remembered in the vicinity of Kilcolman; but the people entertain no sentiments of respect or affection for his memory.' ...
— A Biography of Edmund Spenser • John W. Hales


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