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to donate a portion of one's income — especially a tenth of income to a church; or the amount given

tithes = donates 10% of income to a church

After saving 10% of my income, paying taxes and tithing, I don't have that much to spend.

tithing = donating 10% of income to a church

Clearly offended, Lev says, "Tithing's in the Bible; you're supposed to give 10 percent of everything."
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

tithing = donating a percentage of income to a church

...he began to speak of Mrs. Taylor, "A godly woman, who gave to the poor, visited the sick, tithed to the church and in general lived a life of goodliness."
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tithed = donated 10% of her income

But lots of those people don't tithe at all—even families in our church—and nobody blames them.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

tithe = donate a portion of income to a church

Then the teacher looked at us, a roomful of squirmy, well-fed Chinese-American children, and she said, "This film will show you why you should give tithings to God, to do God's work."
Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club

tithings = donations (to the church)

I do not mean, however, to assert that we can be justified in devoting too much of our time to music, for there are certainly other things to be attended to. The rector of a parish has much to do. In the first place, he must make such an agreement for tithes as may be beneficial to himself and not offensive to his patron.
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice

tithes = a percentage of income donated to a church

Since she seldom dealt with money, other than to take it in and to tithe to the church, I supposed that the weekly ten cents was to tell us that even she realized that a change had come over us, and that our new unfamiliarity caused her to treat us with a strangeness.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tithe = donate 10% of income

Of barges, sailing colliers, and coasting-traders, there were perhaps, as many as now; but of steam-ships, great and small, not a tithe or a twentieth part so many.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

tithe = 10%

That was my fault—and the fault of everyone who raised you to be a tithe.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

tithe = in this book: person to be sacrificed as a donation

I still very much believe in God—just not a god who condones human tithing.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

tithing = in this book: related to the sacrifice of a person as a donation

Lev nods his approval, thinking back to his tithing party and how Marcus was the only one to stand up for him.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

tithing = in this book: related to the sacrifice of a child as a donation

tithes = in this book: people being sacrificed (as a donation)

This is the man who always told him that tithing was a holy thing from the time he was a small boy—and then told him to run from it.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

tithing = in this book: related to the sacrifice of a person as a donation

tithe = in this book: person to be sacrificed as a donation

He leaves the office with the pastors, who babble about his place in the scheme of things and the joys of tithing.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

tithing = in this book: related to the sacrifice of a person as a donation

"Why don't you go back to the tithing house?" the doctor suggests.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

tithing = in this book: related to the sacrifice of a person as a donation

We try to make sure every tithe enters the divided state in the proper frame of mind.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

tithe = in this book: person to be sacrificed as a donation

tithed = in this book: sacrificed (as a donation)

The tithes endure the occasional jeers and hisses from the terribles, like martyrs.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

tithes = in this book: people being sacrificed (as a donation)

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