Judgement About Catholic Ruler Accepting Old And New Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "RECKONING" which means:

noun
• • Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
• • A bill for an amount due
• • The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
verb
• • To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
• • To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
• • To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
• • To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
• • To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host
• • To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
• • To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

An example sentence would be:

• • "The final reckoning will determine who wins the competition."
• • "He faced a reckoning for his reckless behavior."

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