Word Finder - tithings

noun

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A tithe or tenth in its various senses, :

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Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe-proctor).

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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.

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A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.

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Decimation: the killing of every tenth person or (less often) the killing of every person except each tenth.

noun

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A reward, grant, or concession.

Examples of tithings in a Sentence

Dunster was only represented in parliament in conjunction with Minehead, one of its tithings being part of that borough.

This is the one grain of truth in the legend that Alfred was the inventor of shires, hundreds and tithings.

In some districts the men who were bound to be in frankpledge were grouped in associations of ten, twelve or more individuals called tithings.

South of the Thames the tithings were districts normally identical with the township which discharged the duties of the frankpledge.

If, as seems likely, the territorial tithing is older than the personal, each territorial hundred (q.v.) was probably divided into ten tithings.

The parish had two churchwardens from the 15th century 22 and they represented the same tithings as the constables.

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