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   tithe

   /tʌɪð/

   noun

   • 1. one tenth of annual produce or earnings, formerly taken as a tax for the support of the Church and clergy.
   • ▪ (in certain religious denominations) a tenth of an individual's income pledged to the Church.
   • ▪ a tenth of a specified thing: "he hadn't said a tithe of the prayers he knew"

   verb

   • 1. pay or give as a tithe: "he tithes 10 per cent of his income to the Church"
   • ▪ subject to a tax of one tenth of income or produce.

   Word Origin Old Englishtēotha (adjective in the ordinal sense ‘tenth’, used in a specialized sense as a noun), tēothian (verb).

   Derivatives

   • 1. tithable adjective

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