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Tithing
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- 1 A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):; The tithe given as an offering to the church.
"I prayed for the sick and saw some of them healed under my hands. I was given tithings of money and food by people who had not enough to eat themselves."
- 2 A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):; The payment of tithes.
- 3 A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):; The collection of tithes.
- 4 Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe proctor). dialectal
"I see the boys of summer in their ruin / Lay the gold tithings barren, / Setting no store by harvest, freeze the soils"
- 5 A body of households (originally a tenth of a hundred or ten households) bound by frankpledge to collective responsibility and punishment for each other's behavior. historical
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- 6 A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory. historical
- 1 present participle and gerund of tithe form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
From Middle English tithyng, from Old English tēoþung or tēoðung, from tēoða (“a tithe”) + -ing (suffix forming patronymics and diminutives) and tēoþian (“to tithe”) + -ung (suffix forming verbal nouns). Equivalent to tithe + -ing.
From Middle English tithyng, from Old English tēoþung or tēoðung, from tēoða (“a tithe”) + -ing (suffix forming patronymics and diminutives) and tēoþian (“to tithe”) + -ung (suffix forming verbal nouns). Equivalent to tithe + -ing.
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