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Tithing
A tithing or tything was a historic English legal, administrative or territorial unit, originally ten hides (and hence, one tenth of a hundred). Tithings later came to be seen as subdivisions of a manor or civil parish. The tithing’s leader or spokesman was known as a tithingman.
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Tything (noun)
obsolete form of tithing
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Tithing (noun)
A tithe or tenth in its various senses, :
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Tithing (noun)
The tithe given as an offering to the church.
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Tithing (noun)
The payment of tithes.
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Tithing (noun)
Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe-proctor).
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Tithing (noun)
A punishment for each other’s behavior.
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Tithing (noun)
A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
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Tithing (noun)
Decimation: the killing of every tenth person or the killing of every person except each tenth.
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Tithing (noun)
A reward, grant, or concession.
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Tithing (verb)
inflection of tithe||pres|part
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Tithing (noun)
the practice of taking or paying a tithe
“receipts from tithing range from $2.5 billion to $4.3 billion each year”
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Tithing (noun)
(in England) a group of ten householders who lived close together and were collectively responsible for each other’s behaviour.
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Tithing (noun)
a rural division, originally regarded as a tenth of a hundred.