Someone who takes the place of another person

Usage examples of surrogate.

Over the years the chief Sorceress had seen a great many of her surrogate daughters march off to their deaths, martyring themselves in order to score important victories against the horrific cymeks.

What surrogate mothers and anti-abortionists and the fetal rights issue had failed to do in uniting women, the prospect of not having to menstruate did.

I have promised her a lusty springald with an iron yard as my surrogate, an she will keep tacit about my limitations.

Ishamael had died mad, true, but even when he was still sane, back when it seemed they surely would drive Lews Therin Telamon to defeat, he claimed this struggle had gone on since the Creation, an endless war between the Great Lord and the Creator using human surrogates.

The responsibility of being Adar was overwhelming enough, but becoming the surrogate Prime Designate as well seemed too much.

To my Cherkess students, it seems, I stand in loco frateri as a surrogate elder.

We have sent into the Net these surrogate messengers to seek out those whose lives, courtesy, works of charity, and creditworthiness indicate they may once have been masters of enlightenment.

State Department are really just paid to be implementors of what the surrogate leaders in the Legislative branch have decided you should implement.

Her consciousness drowned equally with his in the passionate fulfilment -- Ty was not unmindful of motivation in his surrogates -- but meanwhile her three tongues, as well as inner and outer skin, returned a great deal of data to the knowledge collectors in the Ty-Laurie overmind.

By the same token, the surrogates need counsel in order to do their types of jobs to the best of their abilities.

The administration should understand that any time it attempts to intervene directly or indirectly through surrogates it creates disincentives for the creation of a balance of power.

Rhys Michael had declined to cooperate, the great lords had decided very early that it was sufficient for their purposes merely to keep the king alive until some willing surrogate ensured that the queen did, indeed, bear offspring that would be taken for Haldane.

Instead, the same principle of correspondence that caused emerged Ents to remember their past experiences in Exoversemeaningful terms would cause the surrogates to perceive their experiences in terms that were familiar.

Ecsvan had suggested that maybe they could create a purpose-devised organism that would be an ideal vehicle for Ents wishing to transfer to the Exoversein effect, what VISAR had improvised in the form of its Ent-being surrogates, but working the other way around.

Surrogate warning him to avoid war unless the intruders displayed ill intentions.