semisacred

India's 565 "princely states"—the realms of once omnipotent, sometimes semisacred rulers—were gradually brought under the control of the British East India Company, beginning in the mid-18th century; most had yielded by 1818.

Conspicuous Consumption David Littlejohn 2011

The Holy Land voyage had taken on semisacred proportions to her and most of her fellow travelers.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

The Holy Land voyage had taken on semisacred proportions to her and most of her fellow travelers.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

It was not a big house, and a hostile publishers assistant would not be invited into the semisacred writing room.

A Hole In Space Niven, Larry, 1938- 1992

The resinous glow of fire and candles mingled along the edges of the Five Mystical Forms carved from polished hematite, objects of mathematical meditation which had become semisacred to one of the more crackpot schools of dog wizardry and gave a queer life to the statues of the twenty-one Old Gods, lurking like watchers among the books of what had once been their faith.

The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988

I was careful to save her face and made sure she knew it, and now she has nothing to gain by running me down-and something to lose, because I've acquired a semisacred status.

Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973

Ultimately, a Classic Center workshop restoration might not always appear on paper to be a sound value proposition, but as any vintage-car tinkerer knows, return-on-investment is a relative calculation in the semisacred realm of the garage.

Wheels By JONATHAN SCHULTZ 2010

It wouldn’t look good within the community to use a semisacred place, even a partially ruined one, for a high-profile organized crime.

The Bloomsday Dead Adrian McKinty 2007

John Bunyan’s classic allegory, here in the old cradle of Puritanism, held semisacred status; to employ it ironically was tantamount to blasphemy.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

John Bunyan’s classic allegory, here in the old cradle of Puritanism, held semisacred status; to employ it ironically was tantamount to blasphemy.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005