How To Use simony In A Sentence
- To manipulate religious conviction into a political commodity is a contemporary form of simony.
- The Council passed reforming decrees in keeping with the Cluniac reform movement, including ones concerning simony and clerical marriage.
- V with regard to episcopal elections, and passed several disciplinary decrees directed against existing abuses, such as simony and concubinage among the clergy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
- It's particularly galling that German-speakers, not noted for syllabic parsimony, have no problem with it.
- Yet the decorations were always meager, and their gifts chosen with his usual parsimony.
- Until recently, the mean generally went undetected, their parsimony hidden from everyone but its recipients.
- You do assume (in the absence of any observation) that parsimony is more reliable guide to understanding the natural order than say an approach that is more complex. Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved
- The frantic denouncer of simony had himself become a simonist; the indignant opponent of Antoninus had become his secret accomplice; the accuser of misprision had accepted an enormous bribe as the guerdon of misprision. Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
- And so to see a club like York City, once a byword for financial prudence and parsimony, to be staring over the abyss is a mortal blow.
- A classic example comes from comedian Jack Benny , famous for his parsimony.
