simony
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French simonie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 239: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "LL." is not valid. See WT:LOL. simonia, named from Simon Magus, with reference to Acts 8:18-20:
And when Simon saw that through laying on of hands, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, saying 'Give me also this power that on whomsoever I lay my hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost’. But Peter said unto him ‘Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. (KJV)
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 239: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈsaɪ.mə.ni/, /ˈsɪ.mə.ni/
Noun
simony (countable and uncountable, plural simonies)
- The buying or selling of spiritual or sacred things, such as ecclesiastical offices, pardons, or consecrated objects.
- 1989, Anthony Burgess, ‘Hun’, The Devil’s Mode:
- ‘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.’
- 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 37:
- He openly practiced simony; in other words, he sold benefices.
- 1989, Anthony Burgess, ‘Hun’, The Devil’s Mode:
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Translations
act of buying or selling spiritual things
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