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uneffaced en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + effaced.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not effaced.
    • She knew her baby through his manly stature and mature features, less from his likeness to his father than from certain uneffaced traces of infantine form and expression. 1874, Julian Hawthorne, Idolatry:
    • If there is any truth in the old adage that a burnt child dreads the fire, I ought to be very loath to touch a sermon, while the memory of what befell me on a recent occasion, possibly not yet forgotten by the readers of the Nineteenth Century, is uneffaced. 1902, T. H. Huxley, Collected Essays, Volume V: