Examples of tithe in a Sentence
Emily Anderson Stern, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Aug. 2023
Churches are required to fulfill financial obligations for pension liabilities and apportionments (conference tithes) before taking their property with them.
—Greg Garrison | , al, 12 June 2023
Among other things, the agreement requires breakaway congregations to pay an additional tithe based on their income over the past 12 months.
—Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 14 May 2023
Church leaders had anticipated that: outside the auditorium were rows of card machines, and inside, bank numbers flashed on a giant screen so worshipers could transfer their tithes instead.
—Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
The capital, collected through regular tithes from Mormon faithful, is deployed across hedge funds, public equities, and private lands, and rivals the hoards held by university endowments and sovereign wealth funds.
—Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2023
And what constitutes a full tithe?
—David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022
In order to ensure that all Muslims can participate in Eid al-Fitr regardless of their financial circumstances, Muslims pay a tithe called zakat al-fitr.
—Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 6 Feb. 2023
During the next six months, MacAskill and Ord enjoined their friends and other moral philosophers to pledge a secular tithe.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
NBC News, 23 Dec. 2020
Some members are now asking why details about the fund have been tightly held for so long, what the money is for, and whether tithing so much to the church should still be the standard practice.
—Rachael Levy, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2020
The church also owns real estate worth billions of dollars, according to the complaint, which focuses on surplus tithing money and says that the church may have additional holdings not managed by Ensign.
—Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2019
Europeans who were employed by the studios would tithe 1% of their earnings to the fund, which dispensed stipends to needy émigrés.
—Scott Eyman, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
Mark Willes, Deseret Management's president and chief executive at the time, was reported to have said that no tithing money was used in the transaction.
—Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2019
Nativity’s 4,000 parishioners can tithe or donate by credit card, e-check, electronic funds transfer and even at electronic kiosks in the lobby.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 6 Dec. 2019
My daddy was a saver who rarely spent anything, saved everything, and fully tithed at church plus extra.
—Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 27 June 2019
According to persistent rumors, after King Constantine was deposed, a small group of wealthy Greek families tithed, in effect, for his benefit.
—Michael Joseph Gross, Vanities, 27 Apr. 2018
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Word History
Noun
Middle English, from Old English teogotha tenth; akin to Middle Low German tegede tenth, Old English tīen ten — more at ten
Verb
Middle English, from Old English teogothian, from teogotha tenth
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
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“Tithe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tithe. Accessed 25 Sep. 2023.
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Old English teogothian "to give a tenth part," from teogotha "tenth"
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