ineffaceable

English

Etymology

in- + effaceable

Adjective

ineffaceable (comparative more ineffaceable, superlative most ineffaceable)

  1. Incapable of being effaced.
    Synonym: indelible
    • 1865, Edward Dutton Cook, Sir Felix Foy, Bart., page 233:
      Mr. Disbrowe was reclining on a well-worn horsehair-covered sofa, his frequent reclinings on which piece of furniture had stamped a deep and quite ineffaceable impression of his weighty form upon the cushion.
    • 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in A Tramp Abroad; [], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      [] I am sure of one thing—scars are plenty enough in Germany, among the young men; and very grim ones they are, too. They crisscross the face in angry red welts, and are permanent and ineffaceable.

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