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English
Etymology
From semi- + god.
Noun
semigod (plural semigods)
- A demigod.
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 252:"As we have not as yet," says he, "spoken a single word about the very ancient, and I know not whether more ridiculous or perverse, persuasion of our forefathers about semigods, this seems the proper place for saying a few words about this so celebrated figment, as it was chiefly in this period it attained its acmè, and it was believed as a true and necessary article of faith, that there are genii or semigods, called in our language Alfa and Alfa-folk."