different between simony vs simon

English

Etymology

From Old French simonie, from Late Latin simonia, named from Simon Magus (Hebrew ?????????? (Šim?ôn, “Simon”)), with reference to Acts 8:18-20:

And when Simon saw that through laying on of hands, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, saying 'Give me also this power that on whomsoever I lay my hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost’. But Peter said unto him ‘Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. (KJV)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?sa?.m?.ni/, /?s?.m?.ni/

Noun

simony (countable and uncountable, plural simonies)

1. The buying or selling of spiritual or sacred things, such as ecclesiastical offices, pardons, or consecrated objects.
   • 1989, Anthony Burgess, ‘Hun’, The Devil’s Mode:

     ‘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.’

   • 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 37:

     He openly practiced simony; in other words, he sold benefices.

Synonyms

• Simonism

Coordinate terms

• barratry

Derived terms

• simoniac
• simonist

Translations

See also

• benefice

Anagrams

• Nimoys, isonym, myosin

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• enPR: s??m?n, IPA^(key): /?sa?m?n/
• Rhymes: -a?m?n

Noun

simon (plural simons)

1. (slang, Britain, dated, 17th-19th C.) Sixpence coin.

Related terms

• simoleon
• simony

Anagrams

• Minos, minos, omnis