uneffaceable

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adjective

Impossible to efface; permanent.

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Meanings

adjectiveuneffaceable (comparative more uneffaceable, superlative most uneffaceable)

comparative more uneffaceable · superlative most uneffaceable

  1. Impossible to efface; permanent.

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

    1873, Julian Hawthorne, Bressant
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    The emotion remains uneffaceable after more than threescore years, one of the most vivid of my life.

    1901, William James Stillman, The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I

    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.

    1904, Edward Dowden, Robert Browning

Origin

From un- + effaceable.

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APA

uneffaceable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uneffaceable

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Chicago

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