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Definition of "ineffaceable" [in•ef•face•a•ble]

  • Impossible to efface; indelible. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "ineffaceable" in a sentence
  • "The unforgotten and ineffaceable past strummed the fibres of his throat."
  • "How can one at once pretend to fight anti-Semitism with the implied belief that it can be eradicated and then support a state that was created with the justification that anti-Semitism can never be eradicated elsewhere in the world and accepts anti-Semitism as an ineffaceable human phenomenon?"
  • "Thus, if they are to be collectively excused, then it does become a bit harder to persuade others that their own sinful participation is ineffaceable."