Both Uses of
efface
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Your catechism tells you that the sacrament of Holy Orders is one of those which can be received only once because it imprints on the soul an indelible spiritual mark which can never be effaced.†
Chpt 4
- As he descended the steps the impression which effaced his troubled self-communion was that of a mirthless mask reflecting a sunken day from the threshold of the college.†
Chpt 4 *
Definition:
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(efface as in: efface the memory) remove completely from recognition or memory -- sometimes by erasing