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Definition of Semidivine
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semidivine
Literary usage of Semidivine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Classical Museum by Leonhard Schmitz (1848)
"to think that no individual of the name of Homer ever existed, but that he was "
a divine or semidivine eponymus and progenitor, whom the class called ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"... other hearts for centuries, the author's words were living things, and not
embalmed in the sarcophagus of a book. This was the semidivine epoch of the ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Mythol- tions of nature in the guise of the ogy and events and happenings of
divine or Star- semidivine persons, so far as these Worship, have religious ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1893)
"... tenderness with which every one. regarded him and his old fashions is the most
touching tribute to the semidivine nature of this dear child. ..."
5. Characters and Events of Roman History, from Caesar to Nero: The Lowell by Guglielmo Ferrero (1909)
"... render thanks for the fact that Europe was not condemned, like Asia, to carry
the eternal yoke of semidivine absolutism, even in dynastic r6- gimes. ..."
6. Introduction to the History of Religions by Crawford Howell Toy (1913)
"... and Hindu divine and semidivine forms (which are sometimes monstrous),8 it is
probable that for the more thoughtful worshipers they represented divine ..."
7. Introduction to the History of Religions by Crawford Howell Toy (1913)
"Whatever the ultimate origin of the Egyptian, Babylonian, and Hindu divine and
semidivine forms (which are sometimes monstrous),8 it is probable that for ..."
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