forereckoning

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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verb

present participle and gerund of forereckon

noun

"[…] had to have sleep, but decided that since I could not afford to be wrong in my forereckoning, I would at those times guard against surprise by leaning a heavy stick against the bar so that the latter's displacement would cause it to fall and wake […]"
"We of the Power have a certain measure of control over the natural elements, though like all else that is subject to failure or success beyond our forereckoning."

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