Both Uses of
efface
in
David Copperfield
- I began one, 'How can I ever hope, my dear Agnes, to efface from your remembrance the disgusting impression' — there I didn't like it, and then I tore it up.†
Chpt 25-27
- It was Mrs. Steerforth, who gave me her hand more coldly than of yore, and with an augmentation of her former stateliness of manner, but still, I perceived — and I was touched by it — with an ineffaceable remembrance of my old love for her son.†
Chpt 46-48 *
Definition:
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(efface as in: efface the memory) remove completely from recognition or memory -- sometimes by erasing