(particularly) A noun "tithing" represents the act of giving a tithe or tenth as an offering to the church, the payment of tithes, and the collection of tithes.
(historical, law) A body of households (originally a tenth of a hundred or ten households) bound by frankpledge to collective responsibility and punishment for each other's behavior.
(historical, law) A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
present participle and gerund of tithe