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uneffaceable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + effaceable.

Meanings

1. Impossible to efface; permanent.
   • How could the events of a few hours wear such deep and uneffaceable channels in human lives? 1873, Julian Hawthorne, Bressant:
   • The secondary personages in Richardson's "Clarissa" grow somewhat faint in our memories; but the figures of his heroine and of Lovelace remain not only uneffaceable but undimmed by time. 1904, Edward Dowden, Robert Browning:
   • The emotion remains uneffaceable after more than threescore years, one of the most vivid of my life. 1901, William James Stillman, The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I:

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Deriveds

uneffaceably