tithing
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English tithyng, from Old English tēoþung or tēoðung, from tēoða (“a tithe”) + -ing (suffix forming patronymics and diminutives) and tēoðian (“to tithe”) + -ung (suffix forming verbal nouns).[1] Equivalent to tithe + -ing.[2]
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittithing (plural tithings)
- A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):
- The tithe given as an offering to the church.
- 1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 294:
- 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.
- The payment of tithes.
- The collection of tithes.
- The tithe given as an offering to the church.
- (dialectal) Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe proctor).
- 1934, Dylan Thomas, “I see the boys of summer”, in 18 Poems, London: The Fortune Press:
- I see the boys of summer in their ruin / Lay the gold tithings barren, / Setting no store by harvest, freeze the soils
- (historical, law) 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, law) A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
Synonyms
edit- (tenth): See tenth and tithe
- (oath-bound division of the hundred): decenary, decime, frankpledge, fribourg
Derived terms
editSee also
edit- (oath-bound division of the hundred, adj.): decenary
- (oath-bound division of the hundred, leader): See tithingman
- (oath-bound division of the hundred, member): See decenary
Verb
edittithing
- present participle and gerund of tithe
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