All 4 Uses of
tithe
in
Middlemarch
- Such a lady gave a neighborliness to both rank and religion, and mitigated the bitterness of uncommuted tithe.†
Chpt 1 *
- In fact, Mrs. Cadwallader said that Brooke was beginning to treat the Middlemarchers, and that she preferred the farmers at the tithe-dinner, who drank her health unpretentiously, and were not ashamed of their grandfathers' furniture.†
Chpt 1
- Mr. Casaubon was out of the question, not merely because he declined duty of this sort, but because Featherstone had an especial dislike to him as the rector of his own parish, who had a lien on the land in the shape of tithe, also as the deliverer of morning sermons, which the old man, being in his pew and not at all sleepy, had been obliged to sit through with an inward snarl.†
Chpt 4
- I should hear less grumbling when my tithe is paid.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(tithe) to donate a portion of one's income -- especially a tenth of income to a church; or the amount given