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Example sentences for "vicarious"

Lexicographically close words:
vicarages; vicaress; vicarial; vicariate; vicarii; vicariously; vicars; vice; vicecomes; vicegerent
  1. When they have triumphed in war, they select a representative prisoner for official and vicarious execution.

  2. On the great day of atonement the high priest appears in a vicarious and representative capacity, and offers on behalf of the whole nation which he was considered to embody in his sacred person.

  3. Kate remembered it with vicarious shame and the blood that flowed to her face swept on into her brain.

  4. What visions arose in Marna's brain, Kate wondered, quivering with vicarious anguish.

  5. For a truly vicarious act does not supersede the principal's duty of performance, but rather implies and acknowledges it.

  6. A vicarious act is an act done for another.

  7. It is the representation of human life and human sacrifice--vicarious for all, yet binding upon all.

  8. Believe me, once one becomes accustomed to vicarious sex experiences, the real thing is pallid by comparison.

  9. You can be assured that your neighborhood Dream Shop offers you only the finest in vicarious living.

  10. And he wondered if he was able to appreciate it for the first time now because he was being active, although in a vicarious way, and participating in life, instead of merely reflecting on it.

  11. At best we can co-exist, as observers and vicarious participants, but we must surrender choice.

  12. Punch distrusted Socialism because, in his view, it led in practice to vicarious generosity.

  13. It was absolutely necessary that the vicarious victim should make a free and voluntary oblation of himself.

  14. The dignity of man is reconquered by prowess for the Greek, as it is repurchased for the Christian by vicarious suffering.

  15. We shall see that in the first centuries of Christendom the popular conviction that Antinous had died for Hadrian brought him into inconvenient rivalry with Christ, whose vicarious suffering was the cardinal point of the new creed.

  16. The belief in the value of vicarious suffering attached itself to his beautiful and melancholy form.

  17. She smiled with an air of vicarious pride.

  18. He was aged and whitened and his voice had armed itself, since the downfall of his grave, vicarious complacency, with solemn cadences.

  19. You and I, plain bread and butter people, come to see these things because we get a sort of vicarious thrill out of them.

  20. For the first time, with Dick's coming to live with them ten years before, a boy of twenty-two, she had found a vicarious maternity and gloried in it.

  21. He vigorously contended against the church doctrine of atonement and justification, repudiating the idea of vicarious penal suffering, and broke through all church order by allowing the sacrament of the Lord’s supper to be dispensed by laymen.

  22. He confessed an economic but not an essential Trinity, the sinlessness and perfect godliness but not the divinity of Christ, the atoning power of Christ’s death but not the doctrine of vicarious satisfaction.

  23. The Calvinistic doctrine of election is decidedly rejected, and also that of vicarious satisfaction.

  24. Whoever, therefore, denies the propriety of vicarious punishments, holds an opinion which the sentiments and practice of mankind have contradicted, from the beginning of the world.

  25. Whatever difficulty there may be in the conception of vicarious punishments, it is an opinion which has had possession of mankind in all ages.

  26. This is effected by vicarious punishment.

  27. The melancholy man assured me that he had ridden out for love of me, and in order to perform as Wakil (substitute) a vicarious pilgrimage for my parents.

  28. Al-Arkan or Farayz; those made obligatory by Koranic precepts, and therefore essentially necessary, and not admitting expiatory or vicarious atonement, either in Hajj or Umrah.

  29. Unadventurous by nature, and disinclined to embark on foreign trade, the Nilots were content to leave Syria in vicarious hands, so they derived some profit from it.

  30. If this be a vicarious disease, it should continue half a lunation; lest, on its ceasing, the bad habits of motion of the primary disease should not have been so perfectly dissevered, but that they may recur.

  31. Mr. Fison's account of this vicarious sacrifice on the ground that every youth was regularly circumcised as a matter of course.

  32. Vicarious work, when authorized of God, is acceptable to him.

  33. Just why a whole race had to be punished for a sin committed by one of its ancestors, is a mystery almost as great as that of the vicarious atonement, demanded by eternal justice for Adam's transgression.

  34. She knew there was great danger in delaying to do the vicarious work--a fact that all Latter-day Saints should understand who are familiar with the teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith upon the subject.

  35. This was done in the hope that she might, at some time in the future, be able to have a vicarious work done in their behalf.

  36. The dead, too, through an intelligent acceptance in the spirit world of the conditions of salvation, including the vicarious work voluntarily undertaken in their behalf on earth, may enjoy all the Gospel privileges.

  37. In the meantime she had been acquiring a knowledge of the English language, but it was six years after she arrived in Utah before she began her vicarious work in the Temple.

  38. There is one special class to whom the vicarious work in the Salt Lake Temple must be a very great boon.

  39. Anne Boucicault caught her breath with a vague, vicarious shame.

  40. A sick horror surged up within him--horror of his own passionate anger--horror in some dim way mingled with a vicarious shame.

  41. Since all the characteristics of the doctrine of Vicarious Atonement are of Pagan origin, then the body itself of the doctrine of Vicarious Atonement is of Pagan origin.

  42. THE doctrine of Vicarious Atonement supposes the dogma of a Personal Devil, the dogma of Original Sin, the dogma of Trinity, and the dogma of the Supreme Divinity of Jesus Christ.

  43. Therefore the doctrine of Vicarious Atonement is of Pagan origin.

  44. Our father is a town councillor," ventured Lorraine, hoping for vicarious favour.

  45. Rosemary, listening to her deliciously pure high notes, felt a vicarious satisfaction.

  46. In accordance with this the death of Christ has also a vicarious signification (see with regard to both these conceptions the treatise Exhort, ad martyr.

  47. But teachings as to vicarious suffering on the part of Christ are not found in Irenæus, and his death is seldom presented from the point of view of a sacrifice offered to God.

  48. There can be no vicarious virtue, no vicarious vice.

  49. With a readiness of speech rivaling gunfire in promptness I nipped in the bud the preparations for carrying out the proffered courtesy, explaining that I was glad to accept a vicarious description of things at the ocean's bottom.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vicarious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alternate; alternative; backup; counterfeit; dummy; equivalent; fake; imitation; makeshift; mock; phony; pinch; provisional; proxy; reserve; secondary; spare; substitute; temporary; tentative; token; utility; vicarious


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    vicarious atonement; vicarious suffering