Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of effacing, or the state of being effaced.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.
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- noun
withdrawal in order to make oneselfinconspicuous - noun medicine A
shortening , orthinning , of thecervix before or during earlylabour
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous
- noun shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor
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Examples
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And October steals in on silvery skies, but no rain; the light breaks through; roses are still growing; a slow effacement is at work in the sound of the still-green trees at the cusp of autumn.
Breakthroughs : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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The thinning and shortening is called effacement, and is measured in percent, from 0 to 100.
Mothering Twins LINDA ALBI 1993
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The thinning and shortening is called effacement, and is measured in percent, from 0 to 100.
Mothering Twins LINDA ALBI 1993
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And in the Ethical Culture movement the effacement is complete.
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And in the Ethical Culture movement the effacement is complete.
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The thinning and shortening is called effacement, and is measured in percent, from 0 to 100.
Mothering Twins LINDA ALBI 1993
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President was no mean one, and in all the circumstances if he managed to steer a safe middle course and avoid both Caesarism and complete effacement, that is a tribute to his training.
The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903
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Ah, but the joy of life is not only the joy of self-assertion: there is the joy of self-effacement, which is only another form of self-expression, the assertion of a higher self.
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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New Testament nowhere speaks of the indwelling Spirit in such a sense as implies an obliteration or absorption of the conscious individual ego, while "effacement" instead of fellowship is a favorite expression in the
Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood
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"effacement;" the closer the gradual union becomes the fainter is the self-personality, till at length it fades away entirely, and is merged and lost as a drop in the illimitable sea.
Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood
elfflame commented on the word effacement
v trans, erase (a mark) from a surface: with time, the words are effaced by the frost and the rain
Figurative his anger was effaced when he stepped into the open air.
special Usage (efface oneself) Figurative make oneself appear insignificant or inconspicuous.
Derivatives ef-face-ment n.
Origin late 15th cent. (in the sense 'pardon or be absolved from (an offence)'): from French effacer, from e- (from Latin ex- 'away from') + face 'face'.
April 26, 2020
elfflame commented on the word effacement
Between the rubble and his effacement from history, no looters got to it.
Widdershins (whyborne & Griffin) by Jordan L Hawk
April 26, 2020