simony

/sahy-muh-nee, sim-uh-/US // ˈsaɪ mə ni, ˈsɪm ə- //UK // (ˈsaɪmənɪ) //

煨桑,煨桑树,煨桑园

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : the making of profit out of sacred things.
- : the sin of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferments, benefices, etc.

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.