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simony

si·mo·ny [ smənee ]


noun 
Definition:
 
trading in sacred things: the buying or selling of sacred Christian objects

[13th century. Via French< late Latin simonia< Simon Magus, Samaritan who tried to buy the power of conferring the Holy Spirit]

si·mo·nist noun
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