Definition of "misreckoning" []

• Present participle of misreckon. (verb)

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• "Of course, we can only assume that the sirens and squeals that were emitted due to his misreckoning were immensely louder than the prior hum, but some folks just love to learn the hard way."
• "For consequences of words are not the signs of his will, when other consequences are signs of the contrary; but rather signs of error and misreckoning, to which all mankind is too prone."
• "It would always be difficult to know, in the weeks and months to come, if what happened next was of genuine consequence, a crucial misreckoning, or if in his attempt to counsel the boy he had merely been clumsy in his choice of tactic: clumsiness could sometimes be overscrutinized, raised to the scale of consequence."