day of reckoning

Other forms: days of reckoning

Definitions of day of reckoning
  1. noun
    (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
    synonyms: Day of Judgement, Day of Judgment, Doomsday, Judgement Day, Judgment Day, Last Day, Last Judgement, Last Judgment, crack of doom, doomsday, end of the world, eschaton
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    type of:
    day
    some point or period in time
  2. noun
    an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
    synonyms: doom, doomsday, end of the world
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    type of:
    destiny, fate
    an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
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