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 Translation for 'venality' from English to Spanish
NOUN   a venality | venalities
venalidad {f}venality
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Translation for 'venality' from English to Spanish

venality
venalidad {f}
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Usage Examples English
  • Hardy uses the character in the novel to accuse Blair of venality.
  • In 1694, Innocent XII's series of reforms was capped off with an expensive campaign to eliminate the venality of offices while reimbursing their current holders.
  • An able economist, Orry had to restore the "dixième" ("tenth") tax and declared the venality of municipal officials, successfully balancing the budget in 1739-40.
  • Venality is a vice associated with being bribeable or willing to sell one's services or power, especially when people are intended to act in a decent way instead.
  • As the result of numerous complaints concerning venality and partiality, Viceroy Carrillo de Mendoza began an investigation of the archbishop of Mexico, Juan Pérez de la Serna.

  • Through venality of office, many bourgeoisie could hope for eventual noble status, and this provided an important avenue of social mobility for the expanding middle class.
  • The Estates General accomplished little, spending its time discussing the relationship of France to the Papacy and the venality of offices, but reaching no resolutions.
  • He also complained about the superstitious beliefs and pagan traditions of the Estonian peasants and the venality of mercenary armies during the wars.
  • To emphasize his opponents' venality and thus question the motives for their doctrinal position, he used sarcasm, irony, significatio, and praemunitio.
  • The overt venality of its leaders and their scandals caused widespread revulsion.

  • James McManus wrote in the Wall Street Journal that "Straight Flush" was "not just a book about clueless adolescent venality, 'Straight Flush' is that sorry thing itself, and in spades."
  • Formerly these offices as well as those of the other Chancery officers from the Regent down were occasions of venality, until Popes, especially Pope Benedict XIV and Pope Pius VII, gradually abolished that.
  • Boasting that he would put an end to barratry, ironically he became famous for his venality.
  • Repent and go to the beliefs under Antioch; join the Anglican Church with western aid; or go forward with the Cleansing and restoring "The Church" to what he thought would bring it to a pristine position, A church uncontaminated by avarice, venality, licentiousness, and rapacity.
  • As such, Artemis is ultimately stripped of the innocence which formerly "protected him from [...] venality and venery around him" according to biographer Scott Donaldson.

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