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/ˈsaɪ.mə.ni/ · noun
The buying or selling of spiritual or sacred things, such as ecclesiastical offices, pardons, or consecrated objects..
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.
‘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.’
He openly practiced simony; in other words, he sold benefices.
Use simony when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Simony means The buying or selling of spiritual or sacred things, such as ecclesiastical offices, pardons, or consecrated objects..
Common synonyms include Simonism.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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