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Definition of Demigoddesses
1. demigoddess [n] - See also: demigoddess
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demigoddesses
Literary usage of Demigoddesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Letters of Horace Walpole: Fourth Earl of Orford by Horace Walpole (1904)
"The little events of the world are below the regard of one who steps from throne
to throne, and converses only with demigods and demigoddesses. ..."
2. Literature and Insurgency: Ten Studies in Racial Evolution: Mark Twain by John Curtis Underwood (1914)
"Whatever it may or may not have been in the past, history to-day is not made up
of the strivings of demigods and demigoddesses, with the rest of the world ..."
3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1852)
"... and on passing from patriarchal into antediluvian times, meet with two
demigoddesses in the wives of Lamech, Ada and Zillah, with Janus, or the modern ..."
4. The Earliest Cosmologies: The Universe as Pictured in Thought by Ancient by William Fairfield Warren (1909)
"For this purpose eight maternal demigoddesses are selected. These are named in
order, and beginning at the East, as before, the station of each is indicated ..."
5. The Comedies of Aristophanes by Aristophanes (1837)
"... who are the jades Who are singing these 'Iliads and 'Odysseys ? Or am I to
think that the musical maids Are certain divine demigoddesses ? ..."
6. Linguistic and Oriental Essays: Written from the Year 1840 to 1903 by Robert Needham Cust (1904)
"But presents were also offered, and I fear are still, to Demigods and demigoddesses,
under the name of Saints and ..."
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