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Meaning of tithing

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

tithing

Pronunciation:/ˈtʌɪðɪŋ//ˈtaɪðɪŋ/

verb

Definitions

  1. To give one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:

  2. To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:

  3. To compose the tenth part of something.

verb

Definitions

  1. To grant, concede.

noun

Definitions

  1. A tithe or tenth in its various senses, :

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

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