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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n.名词 noun
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- : 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? '
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