misreckoning
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]misreckoning
- present participle and gerund of misreckon
Noun
[edit]misreckoning (plural misreckonings)
- A false reckoning; a miscalculation. [from 16th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.11:
- 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.