half-superstitious

Surrounded by grateful patients, regarded as a half-superstitious object of veneration by the women, Dot Moxon'the matron so-called-fussing round him like an old hen.

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

But, as I have said, all this I heard afterwards, and my half-superstitious feeling for the flower had grown up independently in my own mind.

Green Mansions 2004

He was gentle, kind, smiling, submissive, as usual; but it seemed to me that he experienced henceforth toward me the same half-superstitious repulsion which I had always felt from him.

Uncle Silas 2003

This had not been successful; most of them regarded him with a half-superstitious awe, and I was given to understand that Himself could naturally survive the eating of things that would kill a normal person dead on the spot.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

Such, in a measure, was Hyacinthe King at twenty -- a curious compound of beauty, unspent _verve_, irritated longings, half-superstitious imaginings, and half-developed impulses, ideas and mental powers; practically, an assistant to the worn mother in her household duties,

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various

Even after hearing of the death of my brother, a cowardly, half-superstitious dread kept me from destroying it, though doubtless I would have done so soon after making my own will had I not been prevented by circumstances unforeseen, which I will now state.

That Mainwaring Affair

At first there came involuntarily half-superstitious thoughts.

The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille

He saw the same half-superstitious fear appear in her face that had touched him.

The Winds of Time James H. Schmitz 1946

Then the words of the text he had heard came back to his mind with a half-superstitious shock at the coincidence.

Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

'More than any other girl I know – if I keep her from you, that gentle, inflexible creature could rouse in men the old half-superstitious fear –'

The Convert 1907