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Verb

misreckoning

  • present participle and gerund of misreckon

Noun

misreckoning (plural misreckonings)

  • A false reckoning; a miscalculation. [from 16th c.]
    • ✤ And if by such a meane we might provide for times to come, appoynting that after the revolution of such or such a number of yeares, that extraordinary day might for ever be eclipsed; so that our misreckoning should not henceforward exceede foure and twenty houres.1

Etymology

From misreckon + -ing.

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

  1. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.11: ↩

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