Reckoning vs. Vengeance — What's the Difference?

The act of counting or computing.

Punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong

An itemized bill or statement of a sum due.

Infliction of punishment in return for a wrong committed; retribution.

A settlement of accounts

Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.

The act or process of calculating the position of a ship or an aircraft.

Desire for revenge.

The position so calculated.

Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; - often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge.

The action of calculating or estimating something.

Harm; mischief.

An opinion or judgement.

The act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life;

A summing up or appraisal.

The settlement of accounts, as between parties.

The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.

(archaic) The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.

(archaic) Rank or status.

The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.

The charge or account made by a host at an inn.

Esteem; account; estimation.

The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, - in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); - also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation.

Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities

A bill for an amount due

The act of counting;