tithe
noun/taɪð/
/taɪð/
- (in the past) a tenth of the goods that somebody produced or the money that they earned, which was paid as a tax to support the Church
- (in some Christian Churches today) a tenth of a person’s income that they give to the Church
Word OriginOld English tēotha (adjective in the ordinal sense ‘tenth’, used in a specialized sense as a noun), tēothian (verb).
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