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Crossword-Solution: SIMONY 6 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Simony n. The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment;
the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for
money or reward.

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SIMONY anagram MYOSIN

We have 15 clues for the answer “SIMONY”

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Buying or selling of church offices 1 answer
Buying or selling sacred things. 1 answer
Church crime 1 answer
Corruption among church officials 1 answer
PURCHASE of spiritual things 1 answer
Profit from sacred things. 1 answer
SALE of spiritual things 1 answer
Sale of church property 1 answer
See selling 1 answer
Selling of church offices 1 answer
The sin of buying or selling church benefices. 1 answer
Traffic in holy things 1 answer
Traffic in sacred things. 1 answer
Traffic in that which is sacred. 1 answer
improbity 30 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble SIMONY6-letter words that start with S6-letter words that end in Y6-letter words containing IM6-letter words containing NY6-letter words with S and I

Sentences with SIMONY (5)

The profit, and consequently the guilt, of this simony, was imputed to Belisarius: but the hero obeyed the orders of his wife; Antonina served the passions of the empress; and Theodora lavished her treasures, in the vain hope of obtaining a pontiff hostile or indifferent to the council of Chalcedon.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1996
His open simony might be the consequence of distress; and his blasphemous invocation of Jupiter and Venus, if it be true, could not possibly be serious.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1996
And so do men in other places: God amend it when his will is! And that is great sclaundre, for now is simony king crowned in Holy Church: God amend it for his mercy! And they say, that in Lent, men shall not fast, ne sing Mass, but on the Saturday and on the Sunday.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville John Mandeville 2014
The wealth of the Church was a sore evil in his eyes, since it diverted the clergy from their spiritual duties, and was the cause of innumerable scandals, and was closely connected with simony and the accumulation of benefices in the hands of a single priest.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume III, Part 1 John Lord 1998
Wherefore I consider that when Brother Thomas sold the grace of his relic, by the touching of rings, he dealt in a devilish black simony, vending to simple Christians no grace but that of his master, Sathanas.
A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 2005

Quotes with SIMONY (1)

Gods didn’t mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery, atheists like Simony, who spend their whole life hating gods for not existing. That sort of atheism was a rock. It was nearly belief …
Terry Pratchett Small Gods
Where this answer appears

Appears in: NYT, WP, WSJ.

Used 12 times in crossword archives (1943–2018).