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. 1. a tithe; tenth
   2. the exacting or paying of tithes
2. a company of ten householders in the system of frankpledge
3. a rural division, originally regarded as a tenth of a hundred

Word History and Origins

Origin of tithing¹

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

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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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