tithing

/ˈtaɪðɪŋ/
noun 5

Definitions

noun

1

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

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

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

3

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

4

Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe proctor).

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

5

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.

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