tithing

From Middle English tithyng, from Old English tēoþung or tēoðung, from tēoða (“tithe, n.”) + -ing (“forming patronymics & diminutives”) and tēoðian (“tithe, v.”) + -ung (“forming verbal nouns”).[1] Equivalent to tithe +‎ -ing.[2]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪðɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪðɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -aɪðɪŋ

tithing (plural tithings)

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

   2. The payment of tithes.
   3. The collection of tithes.
2. (dialectal) Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe-proctor).
3. (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.
4. (historical, law) A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.

• (tenth): See tenth and tithe
• (oath-bound division of the hundred): decenary, decime, frankpledge, fribourg

• (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

tithing

1. present participle and gerund of tithe

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