different between tithing vs nithing

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??ð??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ta?ð??/
• Rhymes: -a?ð??

Etymology 1

From tithe +? -ing or Old English t?oþung or t?oðung, from t?oða (“tithe, n.”) + -ing (“forming patronymics & diminutives”) and t?oðian (“tithe, v.”) + -ung (“forming verbal nouns”).

Noun

tithing (plural tithings)

1. A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):
   1. The tithe given as an offering to the church.
   2. The payment of tithes.
   3. The collection of tithes.
2. (dialectal) Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe-proctor).
3. (historical, law) 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.
4. (historical, law) A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
5. (obsolete) Decimation: the killing of every tenth person or (less often) the killing of every person except each tenth.

Synonyms

• (tenth): See tenth and tithe
• (oath-bound division of the hundred): decenary, decime, frankpledge, fribourg

Derived terms

See also

• (oath-bound division of the hundred, adj.): decenary
• (oath-bound division of the hundred, leader): See tithingman
• (oath-bound division of the hundred, member): See decenary

Verb

tithing

1. present participle of tithe

Etymology 2

From tithe in the sense deriving from Old English tigþian (“to grant, concede”).

Noun

tithing (plural tithings)

1. (obsolete) A reward, grant, or concession.

References

Anagrams

• hitting

English

Etymology

From Middle English nithing, nithinc, nything, nythyng, nythynge, niþinge, nyþing, nyþyng, Early Middle English niðing, niþinc, niþincke (“coward, wretch; good-for-nothing; term of address for a boy or lad; stingy or miserly person; niggardly, miserly, stingy”), from Late Old English nithing, Old English niðing, n?þing (“coward; wretch; outlaw, villain”), from a North Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *n?þ? (“envy; hate; malice”) (from Proto-Indo-European *neyH- (“to be angry”)) + *-ing?, *-ung? (suffix forming gerund nouns from verbs).

The English word is cognate with Danish nidding, Late Latin nidingus, nithingus, Middle High German n?dinc, n?dunc (modern German Neiding (“(archaic) one who is envious”)), Old Norse níðingr (Icelandic níðingur (“scoundrel, rascal”), Norwegian niding), Old Swedish n?þinger (modern Swedish niding).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?na?ð??/
• Hyphenation: ni?thing

Noun

nithing (plural nithings)

1. (archaic) A coward, a dastard; a wretch.

   Synonyms: nidering, niddering; see also Thesaurus:coward
2. (archaic) A wicked person; also, one who has acted immorally or unlawfully.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:villain

Alternative forms

• niding

Derived terms

• nidering, niddering
• nithing post
• nithing stake

Related terms

• nithe

Translations

Adjective

nithing (comparative more nithing, superlative most nithing)

1. (archaic) Cowardly, dastardly.

   Synonyms: nidering, niddering; see also Thesaurus:cowardly
2. (archaic) Notoriously evil or wicked; infamous.

   Synonyms: nidering, niddering; see also Thesaurus:evil

Alternative forms

• niding

Translations

References

Further reading

• n?þ on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• nithing in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• hinting