Misreckoning

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A false reckoning; a miscalculation.

    "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."

  2. 2
    a mistake in calculating wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of misreckon form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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miscalculationmiscalculationmisestimation

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From misreckon + -ing.

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