Definition of Vicarious

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Vicarious

Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.

Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer.

Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment.

Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation.

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Vicarious Quotations

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Albert Bandura

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.
Mother Jones

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.
Roger Ebert

Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.
David Boies

Vicarious Translations

vicarious in German is stellvertretend
vicarious in Spanish is delegado

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