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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



... evil star is in the ascendent, precautions are like the vain strugglings of the fly in the web. The day of reckoning may be postponed, but it will by no means be effaced from the calendar. One purple and russet afternoon, when all the silent forest world was steeped in the deep peace of early autumn, Thomas Jefferson ...
— The Quickening • Francis Lynde
... seek the possession of miraculous powers. For years I have been misusing the wondrous abilities imparted to me through the grace of God and my master. I became drunk with egotism, feeling that I was beyond the ordinary laws of morality. My day of reckoning finally arrived. ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
... what days for Clarisse Mergy! Each of them brought Gilbert nearer to the terrible day of reckoning. Each of them meant twenty-four hours less from the date which Clarisse had instinctively fixed in her mind. And she said to Lupin, who was racked with the ...
— The Crystal Stopper • Maurice LeBlanc
... things be an allegory! We take the fine stone that belongs to the Saracens (or Papists) to build our church on, but the day of reckoning comes at last, and our (Irish Protestant) Christians are afraid that the Church will come about their ears. May it stand, and better than that of Samarkand ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... Canal, were the principal propagandists. They realized that the Dock Board could not be required to build their bridges over the waterway, and although the Thompson board financed the work at the time, they knew that sooner or later would come a day of reckoning. The Hudson Board has since then taken steps to collect several million dollars ...
— The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans • Thomas Ewing Dabney


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