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