semireligious
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of semireligious
Example Sentences
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Even at the Tokyo Games last summer, visitors in somewhat looser pandemic protocols enjoyed the semireligious privilege of entering the city’s ubiquitous, and surprisingly tasty, convenience stores.
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022
“There’s something semireligious to the way he offers a part of his body to repair a part of her body,” Ms. Murphy said at a preview of the exhibition.
From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2016
The network’s semi-live, semireligious musical pageant “The Passion” on Sunday night recalled a lot of modern television spectacles meant to circumvent the DVR — Super Bowl halftimes, “American Idol,” New Year’s Eve broadcasts.
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2016
In the troubled landscape of Asia, kingship can be anything from a semireligious show to true, traditional force.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ceremony may be performed by anyone, but partakes of only a semireligious character when not performed by a bail�n.
From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.
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