simonyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French simonie, from Late Latin simonia, named after Simon Magus (Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן‎ (Šimʻôn, “Simon”)), with reference to Acts 8:18–20.^[1]

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪ.mə.ni/, /ˈsɪ.mə.ni/

名詞

simony (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 simonies)

1. The buying or selling of spiritual or sacred things, such as ecclesiastical offices, pardons, or consecrated objects.
   • 1855, Anthony Trollope, chapter 20, in The Warden:

     To his eyes it had no attraction; it savoured of simony, and was likely to bring down upon him harder and more deserved strictures than any he had yet received: he positively declined to become vicar of Puddingdale under any circumstances.

   • 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.

同意語

• Simonism

等位語

• barratry

派生語

• simoniac
• simonist

参考

• benefice

Further reading

• simony on Wikipedia.

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