Crossword-Solution: VICARIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vicarious | prep. | Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority. |
| Vicarious | prep. | Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer. |
| Vicarious | prep. | Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment. |
| Vicarious | prep. | Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “VICARIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Experienced for another | 1 answer |
| Kind of thrills | 1 answer |
| Like some thrills | 1 answer |
| Serving as a substitute. | 1 answer |
| acting for another | 1 answer |
| felt indirectly by imagining what another person experiences | 1 answer |
| suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another | 1 answer |
| *Experienced through another | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VICARIOUS (5)
When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.
You remember how indignant you were one day last week because I confessed to having stayed up until one o'clock the night before? Well, my dear man, if I were to accomplish all the vicarious reading you require, I should sit up until morning every night.
Grace Stepney was an obscure cousin, of adaptable manners and vicarious interests, who “ran in” to sit with Mrs.
The look of my uncle’s park wall, even from the outside, had something of a princely character; and when I came in view of the house itself, a sort of madness of vicarious vain-glory struck me dumb and kept me staring.
Apart from the apparent injustice of vicarious atonement, the student is well aware that the whole of this sanguinary metaphor is drawn really from the Pagan rites of Mithra, where the neophyte was actually placed under a bull at the ceremony of the TAUROBOLIUM, and was drenched, through a grating, with the blood of the slaughtered animal.
Quotes with VICARIOUS (3)
Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I'll take 100,000. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about 25 years, dying of the…
I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that practice this unpleasantness in its literal form. There's no moral value in the vicarious gesture anyway. As Thomas Paine pointed out, you may if you wish take on a another man's debt, or even to take his place in prison. That would be self-sacrificing. But you may not assume h…
Vicarious learning from the experiences of others saves making errors yourself, but I regard the study of successes as being basically more important than the study of failures. There are so many ways of being wrong and so few of being right, studying successes is more efficient.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1963–2007).