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Example sentences for "vicariously"

Lexicographically close words:
vicaress; vicarial; vicariate; vicarii; vicarious; vicars; vice; vicecomes; vicegerent; vicegerents
  1. These all lived vicariously for us, and vicariously they died!

  2. The lower dies vicariously that the higher may live.

  3. There scientists find that the coral islands were reared above the waves by myriads of living creatures that died vicariously that man might live.

  4. But, falling, we fall into the arms of Him who hath suffered vicariously for man from the foundation of the world.

  5. Still this should be held in the same way as it should be also held that she eats vicariously when Croesus dines.

  6. Great cruelties were often practised upon them by their parents, which showed how futile was the argument that their parents vicariously represented them; therefore they ought to be directly represented.

  7. Again in the case of the Ashikaga shoguns the political tendency to exercise power vicariously was shown, as it had been shown in the case of the mikados in Kioto and in the case of the Minamoto in Kamakura.

  8. The kidneys, which in such circumstances act in some measure vicariously to the liver and excrete a portion of the retained bile, are apt to become affected in their structure by the long continuance of jaundice.

  9. Mercy is shown, not by trampling upon the claims of justice, but by vicariously satisfying them.

  10. Law is therefore chiefly a revelation of holiness: it is in grace that we find the chief revelation of love; though even love does not save by ignoring holiness, but rather by vicariously satisfying its demands.

  11. Those still in the flesh may officiate vicariously for their departed progenitors; but for this service the genealogy of the dead is indispensable.

  12. The answer is that the necessary ordinances may be administered vicariously for the dead to their living representatives in the body.

  13. The result is, that in their details his own plans, and those vicariously devised, contain numerous crudities and inconsistencies.

  14. Suppose that when a child, who had been forbidden to meddle with the kettle, spilt boiling water on its foot, the mother vicariously assumed the scald and gave a blow in place of it; and similarly in all other cases.

  15. If the man appointed vicariously by the Lord is not in every way satisfactory, he may be discharged by the same process.

  16. At first she did not look at the central unconscious figure on the bed, whose sufferings seemed to her to have been vicariously transferred to the concerned, eager, and drawn faces that looked down upon its immunity.

  17. Indeed, it had been a legend of the office that a predecessor had suffered vicariously from a geological hammer covertly introduced into a scientific controversy by an irate professor.

  18. He turned to me unexpectedly a face of profound melancholy; his expression had in it, oddly, a trace of sternness; and I was somewhat taken aback by this evidence that he was still bearing vicariously the troubles of his client.

  19. He was banished and forced to resign the patriarchate, under the threat of being punished vicariously by the confiscation of his father's property.

  20. A religion of faith, a religion that gets its good vicariously and shifts its sins and responsibilities on to the past, is a religion that can never elevate character; it simply makes a man more intensely what he was before.

  21. As he increases and multiplies the divine authority is vicariously exercised in the government of the race as a society.

  22. Nothnagel conjectured that the formation of the scanty nucleated red blood corpuscles occurred vicariously in the spleen, that of the leucocytes in the lymph glands.

  23. She is petted, and is permitted, or even required, to consume largely and conspicuously--vicariously for her husband or other natural guardian.

  24. The scholar under the patronage performs the duties of a learned life vicariously for his patron, to whom a certain repute inures after the manner of the good repute imputed to a master for whom any form of vicarious leisure is performed.

  25. Where leisure and consumption is performed vicariously by henchmen and retainers, imputation of the resulting repute to the patron is effected by their residing near his person so that it may be plain to all men from what source they draw.

  26. I have read all the reviews of my books except those which clipping bureaus seeking a subscription or kind friends wishing to chastise vicariously have neglected to send me.

  27. VII Bean had once attended a magician's entertainment and there suffered vicariously the agony endured by one of his volunteer assistants.

  28. Bean, I say, had once suffered vicariously with this altruistic dolt.

  29. He never ceased wondering how he screwed up the courage to institute proceedings against Anna, notwithstanding the fact that the matter had been vicariously attended to by his lawyer and a deputy from the county sheriff's office.

  30. It happened to be the obituary notice of a farmer bearing the same name, but that made no difference to Jake; he was vicariously honoured by having his name in print,--and in rather large type at that.

  31. Not only is he present at the action, even when he reads the drama, but he identifies himself with the hero and vicariously experiences his emotions.

  32. If human beings did not possess that tendency to feel within themselves the emotions of the people on the stage, they would be unable to experience vicariously the fear animating the tragic hero.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vicariously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.