Similar words: parsimony, simon, alimony, antimony, acrimony, simon-pure, matrimony, patrimony. Meaning: ['saɪmənɪ] 
n. traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments.
n. traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments. 
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(1) What the pope was fighting was simony, and the only way to put an end to this was to end all connection of the prince and ecclesiastical appointments.
(2) The priests also, imitating their superiors, resorted to simony and war to humble their rivals and strengthen their own power.
(3) This is Simony (Chun-yip Lai). He has a sense of humor. His eloquence is also impressive.
(4) These included the practices of simony (the buying and selling of church office) and pluralism (the holding of multiple church offices at the same time) as well as greed.
(5) A Franciscan from Genoa, he enriched his family and the Papal States through simony and heavy taxation.
(6) At Milan in 1059 he made a speech against simony to the assembled clerics.
(7) Nicholas II secured a decree that, for the future, ordinations by men guilty of simony were not tobe valid.
More similar words: parsimony, simon, alimony, antimony, acrimony, simon-pure, matrimony, patrimony, testimony, parsimonious, simon bolivar, fortissimo, kimono, bimonthly, lemony, eudaimonia, maimonides, harmony, homonym, monotony, persimmon, testimonial, acrimonious, matrimonial, semimonthly, patrimonial, ceremony, hegemony, sanctimonious, disharmony.