demidivine

comparative more demidivine · superlative most demidivine

1. Half-divine and half-mortal.

   He is as great a souled man as a Bodyed one, and, were he less furious in his passions, he would be demi-divine.

   1781, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 175

   1 more example

   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.

   1788 January 28, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana

   Synonyms: semidivine