Meaning of Tithing | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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

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