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Raretithing
The correct spelling is tithing.
How to pronounce tithing
verb
IPA: /ˈtʌɪðɪŋ/
Say it like: Tit-hin-g
The correct spelling is tithing. To give one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
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Meanings
verb
- 1.To give one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
- 2.To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
- 3.To compose the tenth part of something.
- 4.To grant, concede.
noun
- 1.A tithe or tenth in its various senses, :
- 2.Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe-proctor).
- 3.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.A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
- 5.Decimation: the killing of every tenth person or (less often) the killing of every person except each tenth.
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