[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being vicarious.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.).
1729. Stackhouse, Body Divin., 581. There is still a Defect in the Propitiation, even tho’ we admit of the Vicariousness of it.
1858. J. Martineau, Stud. Chr., 188. If the vicariousness be not this mere pretence, it describes an outrage upon the first principles of rectitude.
1874. H. R. Reynolds, John Bapt., V. § 2. 328. The vicariousness of the sacrifice makes a more severe demand upon our conscience and intelligence.
1889. Lancet, 27 July, 175/1. Another favourite assertion of the opponents of vaccination—the vicariousness of zymotic mortality.
