simony / ˈsaɪ mə ni, ˈsɪm ə- /
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simony 的定义
n. 名词 noun- the making of profit out of sacred things.
- the sin of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferments, benefices, etc.
更多simony例句
- I should have told him that in my opinion his attitude was simony—rank simony, and let it go at that.
- But simony, or the sale of ecclesiastical benefices, was a still more alarming evil to the mind of Gregory.
- It was not merely simony; it was as to who should be the supreme master of Germany and Italy, the emperor or the pope.
- But enough deeds of immorality, tyranny, ambition and simony were found proved to justify the severest judgment.
- He could not understand the selling of livings in England, and asked if it was not simony.