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tithing

noun
/ˈtaɪðɪŋ/

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.

  1. inherited from tēoþung
  2. inherited from tithyng

Definitions

  1. A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly)

    A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):

    • 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. Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe proctor).

    • I see the boys of summer in their ruin / Lay the gold tithings barren, / Setting no store by harvest, freeze the soils

  3. A body of households (originally a tenth of a hundred or ten households) bound by…

    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.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.

    2. present participle and gerund of tithe

The neighborhood

Derived

tithing-barn, tithing days, tithingman, tithing-man, tithing-penny, tithing port, tithing-sheaf, tithing-system, tithing table, tithing-time

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA