uneffaceable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + effaceable.
Adjective
[edit]uneffaceable (comparative more uneffaceable, superlative most uneffaceable)
- Impossible to efface; permanent.
- 1873, Julian Hawthorne, Bressant[1]:
- How could the events of a few hours wear such deep and uneffaceable channels in human lives?
- 1901, William James Stillman, The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I[2]:
- The emotion remains uneffaceable after more than threescore years, one of the most vivid of my life.
- 1904, Edward Dowden, Robert Browning[3]:
- 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.