tithing
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tithing
- /ˈtaɪðɪŋ/
Rhymes with -aɪðɪŋ
Where it comes from
From Middle English tithyng, from Old English tēoþung or tēoðung, from tēoða (“a tithe”) + -ing (suffix forming patronymics and diminutives) and tēoþian (“to tithe”) + -ung (suffix forming verbal nouns). Equivalent to tithe + -ing.
noun tithings
- The tithe given as an offering to the church. 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.
- 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
- 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.
- A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
Similar: tenth and tithe
verb
- present participle and gerund of tithe
