uneffaced

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ effaced

Adjective[edit]

uneffaced (not comparable)

  1. Not effaced.
    • 1874, Julian Hawthorne, Idolatry[1]:
      She knew her baby through his manly stature and mature features, less from his likeness to his father than from certain uneffaced traces of infantine form and expression.
    • 1902, T. H. Huxley, Collected Essays, Volume V[2]:
      If there is any truth in the old adage that a burnt child dreads the fire, I ought to be very loath to touch a sermon, while the memory of what befell me on a recent occasion, possibly not yet forgotten by the readers of the Nineteenth Century, is uneffaced.