tenth vs tithing

tenth

noun
  • One of ten equal parts of a whole. 

  • The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position. 

  • The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third. 

  • A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject. 

adj
  • Being one of ten equal parts of a whole. 

  • The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth. 

verb
  • To divide by ten, into tenths. 

tithing

noun
  • 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. 

  • The payment of tithes. 

  • A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory. 

  • The collection of tithes. 

  • Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe-proctor). 

  • The tithe given as an offering to the church. 

How often have the words tenth and tithing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )