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English
Etymology
From demi- + divine.
Adjective
demidivine (comparative more demidivine, superlative most demidivine)
- 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.