effacement
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French effacement.
Noun[edit]
effacement (countable and uncountable, plural effacements)
- The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.
- Withdrawal in order to make oneself inconspicuous; the making of oneself inconspicuous.
- 2007, John Zerzan, Silence, page 3:
- Native Americans seem to have always placed great value on silence and direct experience, and in indigenous cultures in general, silence denotes respect and self-effacement.
- (medicine) A shortening, or thinning, of the cervix before or during early labour.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
withdraw in order to make oneself inconspicuous
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From effacer (“to erase”) + -ment.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
effacement m (plural effacements)
- erasure (act of erasing)
Descendants[edit]
- → English: effacement
Further reading[edit]
- “effacement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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