demidivine

English

Etymology

From demi- +‎ divine.

Adjective

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.