tithing
A tithe or tenth in its various senses,A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly): The tithe given as an offering to the church.
Значение
значений: 6A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):
The tithe given as an offering to the church.
The payment of tithes.
The collection of tithes.
(диалектное)Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe proctor).
(историческое)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.
(историческое)A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
Происхождение
From Middle English tithyng, from Old English tēoþung or tēoðung, from tēoða (“a tithe”) +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.
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