Both Uses of
efface
in
The Age of Innocence
- His one terror was to do anything which might efface the sound and impression of her words; his one thought, that he should never again feel quite alone.†
Chpt 24 *
- In THEIR day, the elder ladies agreed, the wife of a man who had done anything disgraceful in business had only one idea: to efface herself, to disappear with him.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(efface as in: efface the memory) remove completely from recognition or memory -- sometimes by erasing