effacement
nounEtymology Borrowed from French effacement.
1
The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.
- Among the many very baffling inconsistencies of Shakespeare's life the outstanding mystery is surely this: that of all his prolific work […] not a line of manuscript is known to exist today. Nothing approaching this complete effacement can be paralleled in literary history […]1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:
2
Withdrawal in order to make oneself inconspicuous; the making of oneself inconspicuous.
- Native Americans seem to have always placed great value on silence and direct experience, and in indigenous cultures in general, silence denotes respect and self-effacement.2007, John Zerzan, Silence, page 3:
3
Medicine, Sciences A shortening, or thinning, of the cervix before or during early labour.
- Derived terms
- self-effacement