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final reckoning

noun
/ˌfaɪnl̩ ˈɹɛk(ə)nɪŋ/UK/ˌfaɪn(ə)l ˈɹɛk(ə)nɪŋ/US

Etymology

From final + reckoning (“act or occasion of accounting to God after death for one’s conduct in life”).

  1. derived from *h₃reǵ-✻ — “to make straight or right”
  2. derived from *rekan✻ — “swift, ready, prompt”
  3. inherited from *rekanōn✻ — “to count, explain”
  4. inherited from recenian — “to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”
  5. inherited from rekenen
  6. suffixed as reckoning — “reckon + ing”
  7. compounded as final reckoning — “final + reckoning”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of judgement day (“the final trial of all humankind, both the living and the…

    Synonym of judgement day (“the final trial of all humankind, both the living and the dead, by God expected to take place at the end of the world, when each is rewarded or punished according to their merits”).

  2. The act of assessing the overall merits of something.

    • In the final reckoning, Spain paid the price for the Achilles heel that troubled them in the early stages of this competition, namely an inability to crown glorious passing and approach play with an end product.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for final reckoning. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA