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tithing

/tahy-thing/US // ˈtaɪ ðɪŋ //UK // (ˈtaɪðɪŋ) //

十一奉献,什一奉献,十一奉獻,什一奉献法

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a tithe.
    • : a giving or an exacting of tithes.
    • : a grouping of men, originally 10 in number, for legal and security purposes in the Anglo-Saxon and Norman system of frankpledge.
    • : a rural division in England, originally regarded as one tenth of a hundred, descended from this system.

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Examples

  • Stories abound about his private charity—not just tithing, but personal outreach to neighbors in need.

  • As ten families of freeholders made up a tithing, so ten tithings composed a superior division, called a hundred.

  • The watchful tithing-man, as he was called, was always on the lookout for drowsy people.

  • Tithing is the rental we are asked to pay on the property committed to our keeping and use.

  • The tithing system has failed whenever meddled with by the secular power.

  • But it is unseemly to bounce in the meeting-house, and besides, is he not the tithing-man? '