quasi-sacred

For a few extraordinary days, Tiananmen had assumed the quasi-sacred aura of a sacrificial altar.

Archive 2009-05-19 philip j cunningham 2009

For a few extraordinary days, Tiananmen had assumed the quasi-sacred aura of a sacrificial altar.

ZHAO ZIYANG AND THE STUDENTS philip j cunningham 2009

A quasi-sacred part of it is the inkle, tape or string, often a most magnificent affair, with tassels of pearl and precious stones; and

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The author obviously has delusions of his latest work achieving the quasi-sacred status of a science fiction epic.

The Official “Win a Copy of Coffee Shop” Contest: Your Scathing Book Review « Whatever 2007

"Memorials will only be erected to him, according to this train of thought, when the rhetoric of Jefferson liberalism ceases to dominate mainstream American culture, when the exaltation of 'the people' is replaced by a quasi-sacred devotion to 'the public', when the cult of the liberated individual is superseded by the celebration of self-denial ..."

Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams 1993

Constantinople remained subservient to the Emperor, who had a quasi-sacred character.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas S. G. F. BRANDON 1968

Oriental plane and cypress, quasi-sacred symbols of domestic comfort and of human sorrow, are found everywhere.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

That the praetexta had a quasi-sacred character seems certain; see e.g. Hor. _Epod.

Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

According to him, the writing under which a Turanian idiom is said to lurk, is no more than a variation upon the Assyrian fashion of noting words, than an early form of writing which owed its preservation to the quasi-sacred character imparted by its extreme antiquity.

A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Georges Perrot 1873

Law grew, concerned as they were with sacred or quasi-sacred interests, very naturally regarded the privileges which they conferred as incapable of being lost through disuse however prolonged; and in accordance with this view, the spiritual jurisprudence, when afterwards consolidated, was distinguished by a marked leaning against

Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855