erasure

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Italic *razdō

Latin radō

Latin ērādō

Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?

Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?

Latin -tūra

English erasure

Pseudo-Latinism, derived from ērādō (“to erase”) +‎ -tūra (“abstract noun suffix”), equivalent to erase +‎ -ure.

erasure (countable and uncountable, plural erasures)

The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
- 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], Rob Roy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
  An inroad on the strongbox, or an erasure in the ledger, or a missummation in a fitted account, could hardly have surprised him more disagreeably.
- 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 7”, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001:
  The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.
The state of having been erased; total blankness.
- 2004 October 18, The New Yorker:
  Bush, even when he had the floor, grimaced as he spoke, except on several occasions when he lost his way and a look of total erasure came over him, a blank, stricken stare for which the French, alas, have the most apt expression: like a cow watching a train go by.
The place where something has been erased.
There were several erasures on the paper.
(sociology) A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.
bisexual erasure

action of erasing

state of having been erased

ērāsūre