misreckoning
English 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.