Meanings (ES + gloss)
simonía
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 decli…
‘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…
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