单词 | ineffaceable |
释义 | ineffaceableadj. That cannot be effaced, obliterated, or blotted out; indelible. (literal and figurative.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [adjective] > incapable of obliteration indelible1529 uneffaceable1611 inextirpable1623 ineffaceable1804 inerasable1811 unerasible1811 ineradicable1818 uneradicable1818 unerasable1826 inexpungible1888 1804 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1803 2 219 The ineffacable horrors and disgraceful excesses of the promoters and quellers of the Wexford insurrection. 1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 25 The everlasting and ineffaceable infamy of bombarding Copenhagen. 1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. I. 87 The nail-marks in the hands and feet of Jesus, ineffaceable, even after he had passed into bliss and glory. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. i. iv. 76 That ineffaceable impression produced by His very aspect. Derivatives ineffaceaˈbility n. the quality of being ineffaceable. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > incapability of erasure indelibleness1655 indelibility1804 ineffaceabilitya1878 a1878 Mrs. Grote in Lady Eastlake Life (1880) vii. 145 The curious fact of the ineffaceability of the Jews. 1893 L. Twining Recoll. 58 The ineffaceability of early impressions. ineˈffaceably adv. in an ineffaceable manner, indelibly. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [adverb] > indelibly indelibly1611 inerasably1811 ineffaceably1814 ineradicably1846 1814 R. Southey Roderick x. 133 On his fame The Ethiop dye, fix'd ineffaceably, For ever will abide. 1832 Fraser's Mag. 5 510 The hideous brand of interested apostacy..ineffaceably imprinted on his forehead. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < adj.1804 |
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