Definition of Reckoning

Reckoning

of Reckon

The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.

An account of time

Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc.

The charge or account made by a host at an inn.

Esteem; account; estimation.

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.

The position of a ship as determined by calculation.

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Reckoning Quotations

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
Isaac Asimov

Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof.
Nicolaus Copernicus

We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.
Moshe Dayan

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.
Ella Maillart

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
Anthony Trollope

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
Max Frisch

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.
Lorna Luft

The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush.
John Spratt

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.
Rand Paul

A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want.
Paul Taylor

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
Iain Banks

Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!
Elizabeth A. Sherman

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
Constance Baker Motley

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Reckoning Translations

reckoning in French is liquidation
reckoning in Italian is resa dei conti
reckoning in Latin is ratio
reckoning in Spanish is suelta

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