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tithing

[ tahy-thing ]

noun

  1. a tithe.
  2. a giving or an exacting of tithes.
  3. a grouping of men, originally 10 in number, for legal and security purposes in the Anglo-Saxon and Norman system of frankpledge.
  4. a rural division in England, originally regarded as one tenth of a hundred, descended from this system.


tithing

/ ˈtaɪðɪŋ /

noun

    1. a tithe; tenth
    2. the exacting or paying of tithes
  1. a company of ten householders in the system of frankpledge
  2. a rural division, originally regarded as a tenth of a hundred
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tithing1

First recorded before 950; Middle English; Old English tigething; equivalent to tithe + -ing 1
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Example Sentences

Stories abound about his private charity—not just tithing, but personal outreach to neighbors in need.

As ten families of freeholders made up a tithing, so ten tithings composed a superior division, called a hundred.

The watchful tithing-man, as he was called, was always on the lookout for drowsy people.

Tithing is the rental we are asked to pay on the property committed to our keeping and use.

The tithing system has failed whenever meddled with by the secular power.

But it is unseemly to bounce in the meeting-house, and besides, is he not the tithing-man? '

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