Vicarious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VICARIOUS in dictionary:

PREPOSITION:
• 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.
ADJECTIVE:
• characteristic of feelings or emotions felt or shared imaginatively through the feelings or emotions of another person
• experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person
• acting or done for another
• felt indirectly by imagining what another person experiences
• experienced at secondhand
• occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function
• suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• serving instead of someone or something else; that has been delegated

Words related to VICARIOUS

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Words that contain VICARIOUS

vicariously19 vicariousness18 vicariousnesses20

How to use VICARIOUS in a sentence

• Her behaviour was odd, if you like, it was even absurd, but it had the sublimity of vicarious expiation.
• Fifteen-year wives whose husbands had long since abandoned flowery farewells used to get a vicarious thrill out of it, and to eye Terry with a sort of envy.
• The thought of another vicarious sacrifice awed him.
• They appear to suffer vicarious torments from high-heeled shoes, spotted veils, and stays.
• This view, when appreciated, affords as impressive a sanction to law, and as affecting an exhibition of love, as are theoretically ascribed to the doctrine of vicarious expiation.
• The third plan of delivering souls from the doom supposed to rest on them attributes to the vicarious sufferings of Christ a conditional efficacy, depending upon personal faith.
• He is a believer in vicarious experience, and is as little likely to be saved by it, in this world at least, as he is by vicarious sacrifice.
• Because of our great interest in automobiles, vicarious or otherwise, there is no class-hatred in Homeburg.
• When the operation was completed the girl turned her attention to the kitchen, where she found Dave, sweating in vicarious suffering.
• My door key came out by habit-reflex and entered the keyhole while my sense of perception let them have one last vicarious thrill.
• They smoked their pipes during service-time, and left Old Montagu, who still survived, to lend a vicarious attention to the sermon.
• In this guise Wataru Sampei was the gardener, making a precarious living at which his skill was accidental and vicarious.
• The wife of this ideal home may probably have a certain distaste for vicarious labour, that so far as the immediate minimum of duties goes will probably carry her through them.
• To the great mass of spectators it seemed as though Richard would have made the girl change places with himself, and become a vicarious sacrifice for his worthless self.
• But till its arrival he consoled himself with literature and found vicarious enjoyment in the deeds of others.
• In general, she firmly believed that everybody who failed to have a saving faith in the vicarious atonement of Christ would be lost.
• People with vicarious consciences are not generally beloved unless they are tempered by much suavity.
• Kate remembered it with vicarious shame and the blood that flowed to her face swept on into her brain.
• So we have also a vicarious consciousness in others.
• Assuming the role and attitude of a vicarious motherhood, Henrietta herself could hardly fail to gain distinction.
• Undoubtedly many of these substitutes are destined to take their place in the future alongside some of the products for which they are rendering vicarious service.
• The ideal dignity of art is therefore merely symbolic and vicarious.
• Jenny fidgeted in her chair and eyed Pa with a sort of vicarious hostility.
• Vicarious realization may save the soul, but it can never fill the place of reality.
• The invocation of Amida is a meritorious act of the believer, much repetition being the substance of this combination of personal and vicarious work.
• Self-perfectionment is the means of salvation, not the vicarious sufferings of a Redeemer.

Similar words containing VICARIOU without suffix s

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