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effacement

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French effacement.

Noun

effacement (countable and uncountable, plural effacements)

  1. The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.
  2. Withdrawal in order to make oneself inconspicuous; the making of oneself inconspicuous.
    • 2007, John Zerzan, Silence, page 3:
      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.
  3. (medicine) A shortening, or thinning, of the cervix before or during early labour.

Translations

French

Etymology

effacer +? -ment

Noun

effacement m (plural effacements)

  1. erasure (act of erasing)

Descendants

  • ? English: effacement

Further reading

  • “effacement” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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whitewashing

English

Etymology

whitewash +? -ing

Noun

whitewashing (plural whitewashings)

  1. The application of whitewash.
  2. (figuratively) The effacement of errors or bad actions.
    Synonym: whitewash
    Antonym: blackwashing
  3. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as to over-favor the Caucasian/white populaces.

Derived terms

Verb

whitewashing

  1. present participle of whitewash

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