Definition of "semidivine" []

• Not fully divine but more than mortal, as a demigod in Greek mythology. (adjective)

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• "But first comes the long, impossible-to-stage "Ride of the Valkyries," where Br nnhilde's eight semidivine sisters are supposed to fly in on horses bearing the corpses of heroes killed in battle."
• "Regarding its rulers as semidivine-god-men upon whom the course of nature depended-the clan believed wide-spread catastrophes would result from the gradual enfeeblement of the ruler and the final extinction of his powers in death."
• "In fact, they have released a rather large brood of semidivine semidemonic highly-conflicted offspring on the world."