The Only Use
vicarious
in
The Call of the Wild
(Edited)
- It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it. Curly was the victim.
p. 28.1vicarious = experienced secondhand (saw the victim rather than being the victim)
Definitions:
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(1)
(vicarious) experienced secondhand (through another person)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)