All 4 Uses of
efface
in
The House of Mirth
- In summer, when he joined them for a Sunday at Newport or Southampton, he was even more effaced and silent than in winter.†
Chpt 1.3
- Chapter 8 The first thousand dollar cheque which Lily received with a blotted scrawl from Gus Trenor strengthened her self-confidence in the exact degree to which it effaced her debts.†
Chpt 1.8
- She no longer meant to destroy them: that intention had been effaced by the quick corrosion of Mrs. Peniston's words.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- Moreover she had not seen Trenor since the day of the Van Osburgh wedding, and in his continued absence the trace of Rosedale's words was soon effaced by other impressions.†
Chpt 1.10
Definition:
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(efface as in: efface the memory) remove completely from recognition or memory -- sometimes by erasing