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A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):; 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.
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A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):; The payment of tithes.
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A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):; The collection of tithes.
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Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe proctor).dialectal
- I see the boys of summer in their ruin / Lay the gold tithings barren, / Setting no store by harvest, freeze the soils
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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.historical
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A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.historical
syn. tenth and tithe