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==English==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|en|enm|tithyng}}, from  {{inh|en|ang|tēoþung}} or {{m|ang|tēoðung}}, from {{m|ang|tēoða||a [[tithe#Noun|tithe]]}} + {{m|en|-ing#Etymology 3|-ing|pos=suffix forming [[patronymic]]s and {{lg|diminutive}}s}} and {{m|ang|tēoðian||to [[tithe#Verb|tithe]]}} + {{m|en|-ing#Etymology 1|-ung|pos=suffix forming [[verbal noun]]s}}.<ref>''Oxford English Dictionary'', 1st ed. "tithing, ''n.''<sup><small>1</small></sup>" Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1912.</ref> Equivalent to {{af|en|tithe|-ing}}.<ref>''Oxford English Dictionary'', 1st ed. "tithing, ''n.''<sup><small>2</small></sup>" Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1912.</ref>

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈtaɪðɪŋ/}}
* {{rhymes|en|aɪðɪŋ|s=2}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# A [[tithe]] or [[tenth]] in its [[various]] [[sense]]s, {{lb|en|particularly}}:
## The [[tithe]] [[given]] as an [[offering]] to the [[church]].
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1998|author=w:Octavia E. Butler|title=[[w:Parable of the Talents (novel)|Parable of the Talents]]|publisher=HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019)|page=294|passage=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.}}
## The [[payment]] of [[tithe]]s.
## The [[collection]] of [[tithe]]s.
# {{lb|en|dialectal}} Ten [[sheaf|sheaves]] of [[wheat]] ([[originally]] set up as such for the [[tithe proctor]]).
#* {{RQ:D. Thomas 18 Poems|chapter=I see the boys of summer|passage=I see the boys of summer in their ruin / Lay the gold '''tithings''' barren, / Setting no store by harvest, freeze the soils}}
# {{lb|en|historical|law}} A [[body]] of [[household]]s ([[originally]] a [[tenth]] of a [[hundred]] or [[ten]] [[household]]s) [[bound]] by [[frankpledge]] to [[collective]] [[responsibility]] and [[collective punishment|punishment]] for [[each]] [[other]]'s [[behavior]].
# {{lb|en|historical|law}} A [[part]] of the [[hundred]] as a [[rural]] [[division]] of [[territory]].

====Synonyms====
* {{sense|tenth}} ''See'' '''[[tenth]]''' ''and'' '''[[tithe]]'''
* {{sense|oath-bound division of the hundred}} {{l|en|decenary}}, {{l|en|decime}}, {{l|en|frankpledge}}, {{l|en|fribourg}}

====Derived terms====
{{der3|en|tithing-barn
|tithing days
|{{l|en|tithingman}}, {{l|en|tithing-man}}
|tithing-penny
|tithing port
|tithing-sheaf
|tithing-system
|tithing table
|tithing-time
}}

====See also====
* {{sense|oath-bound division of the hundred, adj.}} {{l|en|decenary}}
* {{sense|oath-bound division of the hundred, leader}} ''See'' '''{{l|en|tithingman}}'''
* {{sense|oath-bound division of the hundred, member}} ''See'' '''{{l|en|decenary}}'''

===Verb===
{{head|en|verb form}}

# {{infl of|en|tithe||ing-form}}

===References===
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===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=ghiintt|hitting}}

{{cln|en|verbal nouns}}
{{C|en|Death}}