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demideity
発音
- (Received 発音) IPA(key): /ˌdɛmiːˈdiː.ɪ.tɪ/, /dɛmiːˈdeɪ.ɪ.tɪ/, /dɛmiːˈdeɪ̯ə.tɪ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /dɛmiːˈdi.ə.ti/, /dɛmiːˈdeɪ.ə.ti/
- ハイフネーション: de‧mi‧de‧i‧ty
名詞
demideity (複数形 demideities)
- A partially divine being; a demigod or demigoddess.
- 1843, Walter Henry, Events of a Military Life: Being Recollections After Service in the Peninsular War, Invasion of France, the East Indies, St. Helena, Canada, and Elsewhere, Volume 1[1], W. Pickering, page 181:
The river of which I write, is a stream of considerable beauty, though small pretensions; and is the least known of the two or three Eskes of the British Islands. It has the merit of extreme clearness and purity; and its crystal waters meet the tide as pellucid as when they gushed from the parent lake, for no defiling manufactory has been established on the banks. Nature, too, has given the river's course so slight an inclination, that it is untortured by rapids or cataracts, and moves along at a calm and philosophic pace; never losing its temper, or getting into a burst of fluvial passion, ending in froth and folly. No sound, save the murmur of a gentle current, is heard along our quiet river; and if, in times of yore, it had been ornamented by an attendant suite of demideities, like the Grecian streams, a naiad might have invited a mountain hamadryade to breakfast, and thereafter, both might have reclined on the flowery bank, in amicable colloquy, without a ripple on the placid stream big enough to wet their garters. - 1856, Alfred W. Arrington, The Rangers and Regulators of the Tanaha, or, Life Among the Lawless: A Tale of the Republic of Texas[2], R. M. De Witt, page 117:
If the remark be confined to that loftiest sort of heroism, moral bravery, which consists in defying the coalesced opinions of mankind, in obedience to the dictates of conscience, that god within the bosom, and in favor of the right cause, the fact is perfectly true. But if the term, courage, is intended to denote the mere physical quality, the attribute which we possess in common with most animals, the proposition is utterly false. The prowess is of the same specific character with that of the duellist, and often not even superior in degree, which has made the hero and the demideity since the dawn of universal history.
- 1843, Walter Henry, Events of a Military Life: Being Recollections After Service in the Peninsular War, Invasion of France, the East Indies, St. Helena, Canada, and Elsewhere, Volume 1[1], W. Pickering, page 181:
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