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demigod

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A half-god or hero; the offspring of a deity and a mortal.

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The extent of Robert Mugabe's demigod status in Zimbabwe is mind boggling.

Mostyn calls Bournemouth's manager a demigod.

They were the new foe for the Doctor, an anarchic demigod who travels space and time in a blue police cubicle and whose only weapon is his wits.

EVEN the most revered of kings, worshipped by his people as a demigod, is not immortal.

American conservatives revere him as practically a demigod.

Mithras and Mick Jagger are the god and demigod on the brink of satisfaction.

The former deputy prime minister still has "demigod" status in the city, according to local Tories.Mr Denham (a close ally of Ed Miliband, the Labour leader) has prepared a detailed report on improving the party's standing in the south.

In some societies, the actor is viewed not as a hero or demigod but as the epitome of contemporary society; elsewhere, the actor is a quixote, a member of a low class whose convincing impersonations unsettle concepts of order and rationality.

What was needed was a framework of concepts with which to articulate the doctrine of Christ's oneness with the Father and yet distinctness from the Father and thus to answer the question put forth by Adolf von Harnack: Is the Divinity which has appeared on earth and reunited men with god identical with that supreme Divinity which governs heaven and earth, or is it a demigod?

According to its opponents, especially the bishop Athanasius, Arius's teaching reduced the Son to a demigod, reintroduced polytheism (since worship of the Son was not abandoned), and undermined the Christian concept of redemption, since only he who was truly God could be deemed to have reconciled humanity to the Godhead.

One may be reborn as a god (deva), demigod (asura), human being, animal, hungry ghost, or hell being.

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