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effacement
CIDE DICTIONARY
effacement, n. [Cf. F. effacement.].
The act if effacing; also, the result of the act. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
effacement
Obliteration
N obliteration, erasure, rasure, cancel, cancellation, circumduction, deletion, blot, tabula rasa, effacement, extinction, obliterated, out of print, printless, leaving no trace, intestate, unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten, Int, dele, out with it!, delenda est Carthago.For further exploring for "effacement" in Webster Dictionary Online