demidivine
English
Etymology
From demi- + divine.
Adjective
demidivine (comparative more demidivine, superlative most demidivine)
- Half-divine; semidivine.
- 1781, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 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, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana, 28 January:
- 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.
- 1781, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 175: