Looking for sentences and phrases with the word tithings? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
After this, each hundred was further divided under Athelstan into groups of ten freemen called tithings, of which there seem to have been ten in every hundred.
Money raised to build the community came from donations and tithings at the Mount Olivet Tabernacle Baptist Church.
Examples from Classical Literature
Cultivation was begun, and the land divided into hundreds, tithings and hides.
The country was divided into shires, the shire into districts called hundreds, and the hundreds into tithings.
As ten families of freeholders made up a tithing, so ten tithings composed a superior division, called a hundred.
Dunster was only represented in parliament in conjunction with Minehead, one of its tithings being part of that borough.
The St. George Temple was built by free-will offerings and by appropriations from the tithings of the people.
As to the reasoning about gilds, tithings, and hundreds, it is based on a constant confusion of widely different subjects.
It is supposed by some that there were two annual tithings and in the third year three tithings of the produce of the land.
