different between tithing vs tything
tithing
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)
- A 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.
- (dialectal) Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe-proctor).
- (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.
- (historical, law) A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
- (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
- present participle of tithe
Etymology 2
From tithe in the sense deriving from Old English tigþian (“to grant, concede”).
Noun
tithing (plural tithings)
- (obsolete) A reward, grant, or concession.
References
Anagrams
- hitting
tithing From the web:
- what tithing means
- what tithing really means
- what tithing does
- what tithing is used for
- tithing what does the bible say
- what is tithing according to the bible
- what is tithing in church
- what does tithing mean in the bible
tything
English
Noun
tything (plural tythings)
- Obsolete form of tithing.
tything From the web:
- what does tithing mean
- tythingman
- what is considered tithing
- what does tithing really mean
- what tithing really means
- what tithing means
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- tithing vs tything
- tything vs kything
- tything vs tathing
- sything vs tything
- nithing vs niching
- nighing vs nithing
- pithing vs nithing
- tithing vs nithing
- sithing vs nithing
- nithing vs withing
- nothing vs nithing
- nithing vs niddering
- nithing vs niding
- tathing vs teathing
- oathing vs tathing
- tathing vs bathing
- tathing vs tithing
- lathing vs tathing
- tathing vs pathing
- tathing vs tatting