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Definition of Effacing
1. efface [v] - See also: efface
Lexicographical Neighbors of Effacing
Literary usage of Effacing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Soon after his death, four of his works were placed on the Index; it was found
that in them he had erred on the side of effacing the distinction between the ..."
2. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1898)
"... the highest glory of self-effacing love; these two forces work in opposition.
We have tied them together. We have made the woman, the mother,— the very ..."
3. Curran and his contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1850)
"... recrimination too often occupies the place of mutual forgiveness, and persecution
follows the footsteps of religion, effacing them with blood. ..."
4. A Year of Consolation by Fanny Kemble (1847)
"... While, trooping by, the pageant grand and gay Of life shall fill the mirror
of thy sight; Its last faint lineaments effacing quite. So must it be, ..."
5. Ecce Mundus: Industrial Ideals and the Book Beautifulby Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson by Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson (1902)
"... all the other parts subordinating or even effacing themselves for the sake of
this one or more, and each in turn being capable of playing this supreme ..."
6. Historic and Monumental Rome: A Handbook for the Students of Classical and by Charles Isidore Hemans (1874)
"... treatment: it is the Son of God withdrawn from human sympathies, invested with
attributes that only excite terror—the Judge effacing the Redeemer. ..."
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