uneffaceable

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ effaceable.

Adjective

uneffaceable (comparative more uneffaceable, superlative most uneffaceable)

  1. Impossible to efface; permanent.
    • 1873, Julian Hawthorne, Bressant:
      How could the events of a few hours wear such deep and uneffaceable channels in human lives?
    • 1901, William James Stillman, The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I:
      The emotion remains uneffaceable after more than threescore years, one of the most vivid of my life.
    • 1904, Edward Dowden, Robert Browning:
      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.