Definitions for tithings

tithings tith·ing

Spelling: [tahy-th ing]
IPA: /ˈtaɪ ðɪŋ/

Tithings is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in tithings (ghiinstt).

Definitions for tithings

noun

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

Origin of tithings

before 950; Middle English; Old English tigething. See tithe, -ing1

Examples for tithings

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

The country was divided into shires, the shire into districts called hundreds, and the hundreds into tithings.

Cultivation was begun, and the land divided into hundreds, tithings and hides.

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

Henrici I, which speak about free men joining the tithings, or speculated about the meaning of 'plegium liberale.'

The St. George Temple was built by free-will offerings and by appropriations from the tithings of the people.

It is supposed by some that there were two annual tithings and in the third year three tithings of the produce of the land.

As to the reasoning about gilds, tithings, and hundreds, it is based on a constant confusion of widely different subjects.

Hundreds and tithings were part of the primitive Germanic constitution.

Word Value for tithings
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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