In some people this negation or effacement of the self is a predominant characteristic.
She carried into life itself and all its relations her virtue as an artist, that effacement of her observing self in favour of the thing observed.
On the background of Jane's silence and effacement nothing stood out except Gertrude Collett.
The face of an English girl in that place dedicated to sombre intrigue, to the dark effacement of women, to the darker effacement of life, as he well knew, all too often!
She had given him devotion--such devotion, such self-effacement in his career as few women ever gave.
On the eve of my enterprise, the first fair spring of rain in a drought of two months fell, to my disappointment, among the hills; for I feared an increase of the torrent and the effacement of the mighty lens.
She was taken with a sharp spasm of laughter, mirthless, but consciously expressive of all the familiar processes of self-effacement under torture.
His prompt effacement by his victorious ally and natural enemy, the Socialist.
In many of the industries there is practically no difference at all, and the tendency is more and more to effacement of the difference where it exists.
Deportation, colonization, and a voluntary political self-effacement have all been advocated.
At the same time the effacement of the Viceroy's Executive Council has weakened that collective authority of the Government of India without which its voice must fail to carry full weight in Whitehall.
The only alternatives for Japan were war or total and permanent effacement in Asia.
At this time (645), a habit which afterwards contributed materially to the effacement of the Throne's practical authority was inaugurated.
My debt to you is so large that nothing short of self-effacement can ever discharge it.
The little deed of self-effacement promised a much keener sense of the eternal fitness of things than he had expected to come upon, in the young miner, or in any son of the untempered wilderness.
Nay, this would be the cause of the effacement of progress and advancement.
But when we speak of religion, we mean the essential foundation or reality of religion, not the dogmas and blind imitations which have gradually encrusted it and which are the cause of the decline and effacement of a nation.
The spread of the worship of Ea, or rather of the religious conceptions with which it was associated, brought with it the effacement of Dam-kina.
Istar succeeded in escaping any such effacement or degradation.
It was this, perhaps, which facilitated his effacement by Merodach; the lineaments of a Baal were more easily traceable in the sun-god of Babylon than in the god of Nippur.
The effacement of the sense of sin among the Illuminati.
If thou in Jesus truly hadst loved me Then hadst thou loved me as I would be loved, To absolute effacement of thyself Through whole replacement of thyself with me.
I feel my inmost will in me disdain," Said Krishna, "this effacement of myself.
But now the real object of German savagery is self-revealed, not only by the effacement of Louvain, but by the shameful admissions sent forth from the wireless station at Berlin.
The Marquise de Chantelle, as Darrow soon perceived, had the same mild formidableness as the late Mr. Leath: a sort of insistent self-effacement before which every one about her gave way.
While he had pictured her as shrinking away from him in a tremor of self-effacement she had watched his movements, made sure of her opportunity, and come straight down to "have it out" with him.
The best minds were occupied with the leisurely elaboration and discussion of speculative ideas and self-effacement was both practised and preached.
Paris, unlike London, has never expatiated to the effacement of her distinctive features and the loss of civic consciousness.
The agency of their effacement was an endemic disorder known as yellow fever.
Yet this habitual effacement of his own personality marked a delicate and very rare shade in his reverence for the sacred purity of truth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "effacement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blot; cancel; cancellation; deletion; erasure; obliteration
