tithing
/ˈtʌɪðɪŋ//ˈtaɪðɪŋ/
verb
- 1
To give one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
- 2
To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
- 3
To compose the tenth part of something.
verb
- 1
To grant, concede.
noun
- 1
A tithe or tenth in its various senses, :
- 2
Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe-proctor).
- 3
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
A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
- 5
Decimation: the killing of every tenth person or (less often) the killing of every person except each tenth.
noun
- 1
A reward, grant, or concession.
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