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tithings

tithings is the plural of tithing.

Meaning of tithing

Noun

tithing (plural tithings)

  1. 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.1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 294
  2. The payment of tithes.
  3. The collection of tithes.
  4. (dialectal) 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 soils1934, Dylan Thomas, “I see the boys of summer”, in 18 Poems, London: The Fortune Press
  5. (historical) 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.
    Synonyms:
    tenmantale
  6. (historical) A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.

Questions about tithings

What is tithings the plural of?
Tithings is the plural of tithing.

Words near tithings in the dictionary

  1. tithing
  2. tithing-man
  3. tithing-men
  4. tithingman
  5. tithingmen
  6. tithings
  7. tithis
  8. tithonia
  9. Tithonian
  10. tithonias
  11. tithonic

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