Meanings (ES + gloss)
vicarial • vicariante • vicario
Experienced or gained by taking in another person’s experience rather than through first-hand experience, such as through watching or reading.
People experience vicarious pleasures through watching television.
The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise were, as I have said, undignified; I would scarce use a harder term. But in the hands of Edward Hyde, they soon began to tur…
vicarial • vicariante • vicario
On behalf of others.
As time went on, the cruel custom was so far mitigated that a ram was accepted as a vicarious sacrifice in room of the royal victim.
The concept of vicarious atonement, that one person can atone for the sins of another, is found in many religions.
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