demidivine

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English

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Etymology

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From demi- +‎ divine.

Adjective

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demidivine (comparative more demidivine, superlative most demidivine)

  1. Half-divine; semidivine.
    • 1781, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 175:
      He is as great a souled man as a Bodyed one, and, were he less furious in his passions, he would be demi-divine.
    • 1788 January 28, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
      I would coax my Husband to buy a House in London, & build a Cottage on Dymerchion Hill: the Situation is demidivine, and it would be his own.