EGAVE

tithing

About 0.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A tithe or tenth in its various senses, : The tithe given as an offering to the church. The payment of tithes. The collection of tithes.
  2. noun The tithe given as an offering to the church.
  3. noun The payment of tithes.
  4. noun The collection of tithes.
  5. noun Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe proctor).
  6. noun 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.
  7. noun A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
  8. verb present participle and gerund of tithe

Similar words

tenth tything tythe decim decima decime decenary tiend disme tithingman

Often followed by

and is of was to in system office man

Word family

tithings

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