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Synonyms for reckoning

Grammar : Noun
Spell : rek-uh-ning
Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɛk ə nɪŋ

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Définition of reckoning

Origin :
  • early 14c., "narrative, account," verbal noun from reckon (v.). Meaning "a settling of accounts" is from mid-14c.; that of "calculation" is from late 14c. Cf. Dutch rekening "a bill, account, reckoning," Old High German rechenunga, German rechnung, Danish regning "a reckoning, computation." Day of reckoning attested from c.1600.
  • noun computation, account
Example sentences :
  • He was sure she would be exactly suited to the part in "The Reckoning."
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
  • Where this was, is more than I know; for I was not in a state to keep a ship's reckoning.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Yes, Mr. Clawbonny, he is reckoning on a good feed of human flesh!
  • Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne
  • He told me once there should be a day of reckoning between us, sooner or later.
  • Extract from : « The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby » by Charles Dickens
  • Sin' thou knowest me, thou knowest also that he who feasteth with me must pay his reckoning.
  • Extract from : « The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood » by Howard Pyle
  • But all porcupines are not alike, and this one was not within my reckoning.
  • Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace
  • Why, man, the person who took this reckoning, took it this morning!
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling
  • The Universal method of reckoning time had never appealed to me.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various
  • Neither in reckoning of time do they count, like us, the number of days but that of nights.
  • Extract from : « Tacitus on Germany » by Tacitus
  • I have counted the days till I could keep the reckoning no longer.
  • Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
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