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tithing
[ tahy-thing ]
tithing
/ ˈtaɪðɪŋ /
noun
- a tithe; tenth
- the exacting or paying of tithes
- a company of ten householders in the system of frankpledge
- a rural division, originally regarded as a tenth of a hundred
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Example Sentences
Stories abound about his private charity—not just tithing, but personal outreach to neighbors in need.
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As ten families of freeholders made up a tithing, so ten tithings composed a superior division, called a hundred.
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The watchful tithing-man, as he was called, was always on the lookout for drowsy people.
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Tithing is the rental we are asked to pay on the property committed to our keeping and use.
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The tithing system has failed whenever meddled with by the secular power.
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But it is unseemly to bounce in the meeting-house, and besides, is he not the tithing-man? '
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