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tithe noun [ tʌɪð ]

• one tenth of annual produce or earnings, formerly taken as a tax for the support of the Church and clergy.

tithe verb

• pay or give as a tithe.
• "he tithes 10 per cent of his income to the Church"
Origin: Old English tēotha (adjective in the ordinal sense ‘tenth’, used in a specialized sense as a noun), tēothian (verb).


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