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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



... my very heart, reminding me of my littleness. But seeing no use in bandying words, nay, rather the chance of mischief, I did my best to look calmly at him, and to say with a quiet voice, "Farewell, Carver Doone, this time, our day of reckoning ...
— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore
... opportunity to pay up old scores had come, we fully realized, and anticipated with dread the day of reckoning. General Grant, who was Commander-in-Chief of all the Federal armies, and at present personally in command of the army about us, was by no means regarded as a man of mercy. He had positively refused to exchange prisoners, thousands of whom on both sides were languishing and dying in the ...
— The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson • Edward A. Moore
... prevailed, Charlie. Your last argument decided me. I have no right to risk my life, after my good friends have done so much to save me. John Dormay may enjoy his triumph for a while, but a day of reckoning will ...
— A Jacobite Exile - Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden • G. A. Henty
... overlords, assailed as unfaithful servants, showed their teeth. From some hidden, but unfailing, source terribly sure and direct evidence of guilt was being gathered. For Wilfred Horton, who was demanding a day of reckoning and spending great sums of money to get it, there was a prospect of ...
— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck
... vital riddle of our time. I look out upon the windy Channel and think of all those millions just over there, who seem to get busier and keener every hour. I could imagine the day of reckoning coming like ...
— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells


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