VICARIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vicariously mean? 

• VICARIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb VICARIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. indirectly, as, by, or through a substitute

  Familiarity information: VICARIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VICARIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indirectly, as, by, or through a substitute

Context example:

she enjoyed the wedding vicariously

Pertainym:

vicarious (experienced at secondhand)

 Context examples 

Matt did that, it was his business; yet White Fang divined that it was his master's food he ate and that it was his master who thus fed him vicariously.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

At this point Jordan and I tried to go but Tom and Gatsby insisted with competitive firmness that we remain—as though neither of them had anything to conceal and it would be a privilege to partake vicariously of their emotions.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)