simony /ˈsaɪ.mə.ni/ noun1 •The buying or selling of spiritual or sacred things, such as ecclesiastical offices, pardons, or consecrated objects.‘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 pagan ignorance.’ — 1989 formssimonies
