Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to efface; indelible.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not effaceable; incapable of being effaced.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being effaced; indelible; ineradicable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Incapable of being
effaced .
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Examples
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The unforgotten and ineffaceable past strummed the fibres of his throat.
CHAPTER VIII 2010
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How can one at once pretend to fight anti-Semitism with the implied belief that it can be eradicated and then support a state that was created with the justification that anti-Semitism can never be eradicated elsewhere in the world and accepts anti-Semitism as an ineffaceable human phenomenon?
Sam Sedaei: Is Helen Thomas an Anti-Semite, or Are Her Critics? 2010
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The book made at the time a powerful and ineffaceable impression upon me, the like of which I never afterwards experienced in any of my philosophical reading.
Ernst Mach Pojman, Paul 2009
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Thus, if they are to be collectively excused, then it does become a bit harder to persuade others that their own sinful participation is ineffaceable.
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The cover of the book shows the chiaroscuro photograph, ineffaceable from modern memory, of Wren's masterpiece, St. Paul's, as it was enshrouded by smoke and flame during a Nazi bombing raid.
Downhill All the Way 2006
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The cover of the book shows the chiaroscuro photograph, ineffaceable from modern memory, of Wren's masterpiece, St. Paul's, as it was enshrouded by smoke and flame during a Nazi bombing raid.
Downhill All the Way 2006
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Anguish engraves itself in ineffaceable characters on mouth and brow; it passes through us, destroying or relaxing the springs that vibrate to enjoyment, leaving behind in the soul the seeds of a disgust for all things in this world.
A Woman of Thirty 2007
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It was Mrs. Steerforth, who gave me her hand more coldly than of yore, and with an augmentation of her former stateliness of manner, but still, I perceived — and I was touched by it — with an ineffaceable remembrance of my old love for her son.
David Copperfield 2007
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New zig – zags sprung into the cruel pattern sometimes, when she saw it through a burst of tears; but beautified or hardened still, always over it and under it and through it, she was fain to look in her solitude, seeing everything with that ineffaceable brand.
Little Dorrit 2007
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Here stood this aspiring piece of masonry, erected as the most conspicuous and ineffaceable reminder of a man that could be thought of; and yet the whole aspect of the memorial betokened forgetfulness.
Two on a Tower 2006
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