Simony

Quick meaning: Simony is a noun meaning The buying or selling of spiritual or sacred things, such as ecclesiastical offices, pardons, or consecrated objects.

Meaning

The buying or selling of spiritual or sacred things, such as ecclesiastical offices, pardons, or consecrated objects.

Example Sentences

He openly practiced simony; in other words, he sold benefices.

‘There are those two,’ he then said, ‘who were recently arraigned on a charge of high simony. Fancying a monstrance and stealing it and proposing to sell it. They pleaded the usual pagan ignorance.’

To his eyes it had no attraction; it savoured of simony, and was likely to bring down upon him harder and more deserved strictures than any he had yet received: he positively declined to become vicar of Puddingdale under any circumstances.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include emption, sacring, sacrifice, sacramental, sanctification, procuration.

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