reckoning (noun) - a moment of accountability or judgment; the act of calculating or settling a statement [rek-uh-ning]
BREAKDOWN: RECT- (right, straight) + -ON (to make or do) + -ING (act or state)
reckon means to think or believe; to compute or calculate
See also: rectify, rectitude, maladroit
“Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final; they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us.” —Iris Murdoch
