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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈsaɪ.mə.ni/Part of speech nounSorted imnosyStarts with SEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments

Word origin

From Middle English simonie, symonye, from Old French simonie, from Late Latin simonia, named after Simon Magus (Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (Šimʻôn, “Simon”)), with reference to Acts 8:18–20.

Used in a sentence

  • ‘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.

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