vicarious

adjdone or felt for, or on behalf of, another

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adj done or felt for, or on behalf of, another

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Word Origin & History

1630s, from Latin vicarius "substitute, deputy" (adj. and n.), from vicis "turn, change, exchange, substitution," from PIE root *weik-, *weig- "to bend, wind" (cf. Sanskrit visti "changing, changeable;" Old English wician "to give way, yield," wice "wych elm;" Old Norse vikja "to bend, turn;" Swedish viker "willow twig, wand;" German wechsel "change"). Related: Vicariously.

Example Sentences for vicarious

I could, perhaps, wring a somber, vicarious joy from the things that might have been.

Thus she can have a vicarious career by virtue of what she has put into her husband's.

It is vicarious suffering; for they do not know what is perplexing us.

There they met all the vicarious members of the Pullman Club—the wives.

It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it.

I can't understand this passion for vicarious heroism, Johnny.

Nicky had sunk into his chair in his attitude of vicarious, shamefaced misery.

Explain the two-fold nature of this vicarious labor for the dead.

This vicarious situation did not tend to better his condition.

Is vicarious contrition at all more conceivable than vicarious retribution?

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