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  • adjective Impossible to efface; permanent.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ effaceable

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Examples

  • These hollows are uneffaceable; these formations are indestructible.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Depend upon it, those fifteen days with Peter left uneffaceable marks upon the mind and soul of Paul.

    The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910

  • 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.

    Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904

  • The emotion remains uneffaceable after more than threescore years, one of the most vivid of my life.

    The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

  • Here we journeyed along monotonous levels that rose and fell unnoted because of lack of landmarks to measure by, only the broad, beaten Santa Fé Trail stretched on unbending, unchanging, uneffaceable.

    Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899

  • How could the events of a few hours wear such deep and uneffaceable channels in human lives?

    Bressant Julian Hawthorne 1890

  • The original oppositions, after the lapse of a hundred and twenty years, reappear at the Revolution only more intensified and defined than ever; and to this day they remain uneffaced, and probably uneffaceable.

    Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation 1823-1886 1883

  • He put into his one little glass everything he raised to his lips, and it was as if he had always carried in his pocket, like a tool of his trade, this receptacle, a little glass cut with a fineness of which the art had long since been lost, and kept in an old morocco case stamped in uneffaceable gilt with the arms of a deposed dynasty.

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

  • He put into his one little glass everything he raised to his lips, and it was as if he had always carried in his pocket, like a tool of his trade, this receptacle, a little glass cut with a fineness of which the art had long since been lost, and kept in an old morocco case stamped in uneffaceable gilt with the arms of a deposed dynasty.

    The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

  • He put into his one little glass everything he raised to his lips, and it was as if he had always carried in his pocket, like a tool of his trade, this receptacle, a little glass cut with a fineness of which the art had long since been lost, and kept in an old morocco case stamped in uneffaceable gilt with the arms of a deposed dynasty.

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

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