Census and Reckoning

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Census noun - A periodic count of the population.

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Reckoning and census are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reckoning" instead a noun "Census".

Reckoning noun - The act of placing a value on the nature, character, or quality of something.

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Census and reckoning are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Census" instead a noun "Reckoning".

Nearby Words: reckoned, reckoner

Averted by The Domesday Book, which is simply a land survey and census — the original meaning of "doom" is "accounting" or "reckoning," and a doomsday was the day a lord would take stock of his landholdings' production, whence the metaphorical sense of "day of reckoning, Last Judgment."

Source: Doomy Dooms of Doom

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