Definition of vicariously in English:
vicariously
adverb vʌɪˈkɛːrɪəslivɪˈkɛːrɪəsli
In a way that is experienced in the imagination through the actions of another person.
she was living vicariously through her children
we vicariously participate in their daily rituals
Example sentencesExamples
- Tchaikovsky's tragic sense of guilt led him to project himself vicariously into his female characters to convey the emotions he felt for men.
- By representing us, the athlete makes all of us vicariously completed men.
- In the postmodern text, experiencing the sublime by vicariously transcending the self is an object of satire.
- In movies we get to vicariously fight back against the things or people that do the dirty on us.
- He refers to the sympathetic reader who vicariously extrapolates the speaker's pain.