effacement

• “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

• “And in the Ethical Culture movement the effacement is complete.”

  The Social Disability of the Jew

• “The thinning and shortening is called effacement, and is measured in percent, from 0 to 100.”

  Simon & Schuster: Mothering Twins

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “But another cause was the self-effacement with which he placed his time and his strength (never great) at the disposal of others, when he might legitimately have been engaged on work of his own, which must soon have gained for him a foremost place among the learned.”

  The Life and Death of Edmund Bishop, English Liturgiologist: An Account by His Contemporary, Dom Hugh Connolly, OSB

• “We have moved from a culture of self effacement to one of self expansion," Brooks said.”

  The Huffington Post: Jeff Selingo: The Self-Absorbed Higher Ed System

• “If the theory that effacement of the 1817/4 caused the obverse die to break is given credence, then perhaps Mint personnel, wanting to avoid a repeat of this problem, skipped the effacement process for the 1817/3 variety.”

  Look What I Dug Up! 1817/4 Half Dollar : Coin Collecting News

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