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Surrogation

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act or result of surrogating; replacement, substitution. countable, uncountable

    "[T]he Queene [Isabella of France], vvhen ſhee vvas […] aduertiſed of her huſbands dethronization, ſhee outvvardly expreſſed ſo great extremity of paſſion (notvvithſtanding that at the ſame time ſhee vvas tolde of her ſonnes [Edward III of England's] ſurrogation) as if ſhee had beene diſtraught in her vvittes: […]"

  2. 2
    The act or result of surrogating; replacement, substitution.; A process by which a proxy measure for a phenomenon is mistaken for the phenomenon itself. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    The act or result of surrogating; replacement, substitution.; A process by which a person can predict their emotional and cognitive reactions to a phenomenon by observing the reactions of others who have already experienced that phenomenon. countable, uncountable

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