All 4 Uses of
vicarious
in
Main Street
- Carol was shuddering with the vicarious shame which sensitive people feel when they listen to an "elocutionist" being humorous, or to a precocious child publicly doing badly what no child should do at all.†
Chpt 6 *
- She knew that he was satisfied with Gopher Prairie, but it gave her vicarious hope to think of going, to ask for railroad folders at the station, to trace the maps with a restless forefinger.†
Chpt 20
- She was relieved when she had worked out a belief that she wasn't really shameful, that there was a mystical relation between herself and Carol, so that she was vicariously yet veritably with Kennicott, and had the right to be.†
Chpt 21
- She had vicarious happiness in the return of Major Raymond Wutherspoon.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(vicarious) experienced secondhand