Tithe meaning

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One tenth of the annual produce of one's land or of one's annual income, paid as a tax or contribution to support a church or its clergy.
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(archaic) Tenth.
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Any tax or levy.
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To pay a tithe of (one's produce, income, etc.)
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To pay a tithe.
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(archaic) A tenth.
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The tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes of England and Wales are commuted by law into rent charges. Concept originates in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
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A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship.
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A small part or proportion.

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To collect a tithe.
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(intransitive) To pay a tithe.
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To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth.
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The definition of a tithe is a tax, a small collection, or a tenth of your income given to a church.

An example of a tithe is an offering given at a service.

An example of a tithe is a promised pledge given to a Methodist church.

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To tithe means to pay an offering or a tax.

An example of tithe is to give a portion of your earnings each month to your church.

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A tax or assessment of one tenth.
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To pay (a portion of one's income) as a tithe.
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To levy a tithe on.
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To pay a tithe.
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To levy a tithe on or collect a tithe from.
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Origin of tithe

  • Middle English tithe consisting of a tenth part of one's goods or income from Old English tēotha tenth, tithe dekm̥ in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Old English tÄ“oþa (Old English underwent the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law, which resulted in the elimination of the nasal consonant from Germanic *tehunþ-). Compare Icelandic tíund.
    From Wiktionary

Tithe Sentence Examples

  • Malachi indeed assumes that the " whole tithe " - the Deuteronomic phrase for the tithe in which the Levites shared - is not stored in each township, but brought into the treasury at the Temple.

  • In the Persian period the tithe was converted to the use of the Temple (Mal.

  • As Malachi speaks in Deuteronomic phrase of the "whole tithe," the payment to the Levites (now subordinate ministers of the Temple) was perhaps still only triennial; and if even this was difficult to collect, we may be sure that the minor sacrificial tithe had very nearly disappeared.

  • in i166, while it had been still further extended in the Saladin tithe of 1188.

  • - Diagram of sympodial 18) there is formed a main stem budding, uniserial type, shown on tithe i ma in t emeafh r m s polyp in four stages (1-4).

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