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Word: semipagan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...traditions of the Church of England. . . . One of the merits of the bill is that it would promote morality"-i.e., tend by making remarriage easier to lessen the temptation to adultery. "I give general support to this bill," concluded the Bishop of Birmingham, "not because of concessions to a semipagan community, but because it seems to be legislation in accordance with the spirit of Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Sex-Satisfying | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...Lustgarten between the old Imperial Palace and the Protestant Cathedral. Squads of police would be on hand to manage the pack. There would be a demonstration at the Kroll Opera House and down Unter den Linden would march a snappy parade of German Christians-the exuberantly radical semipagan backers of the Reichsbischof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Shame & Sorrow | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

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