Crossword-Solution: EFFACING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Effacing | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Efface |
We have 2 clues for the answer “EFFACING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Obliterating or erasing | 1 answer |
| RUBBING out | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZCMAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EFFACING (5)
The self-effacing phrase "TDM TLA" (Too Damn Many...) is often used to bemoan the plethora of TLAs in use.
Though I am afraid it is not the plan adopted by women of the world after a defeat.” “Why, pray?” “Because they know that as good as overcoming is skill in effacing recollection of being overcome, and turn their attention to that entirely.” “I am wrong again, of course.” “Perhaps your wrong is more pleasing than their right.” “I don’t quite know whether you mean that, or whether you are laughing at me,” she said, looking doubtingly at him, yet inclining to accept the more flattering interpretation.
The consciousness that he was in reality still a young man spread over his mind afresh, and this time he felt that it was effacing all earlier impressions.
Plinth continued with an awful magnanimity, “the matter was taken out of my hands by our President’s decision that the right to entertain distinguished guests was a privilege vested in her office; and I think the other members will agree that, as she was alone in this opinion, she ought to be alone in deciding on the best way of effacing its--its really deplorable consequences.” A deep silence followed this unexpected outbreak of Mrs.
All Lucy’s loveliness had come back to her in death, and the hours that had passed, instead of leaving traces of “decay’s effacing fingers,” had but restored the beauty of life, till positively I could not believe my eyes that I was looking at a corpse.
Quotes with EFFACING (3)
When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course, he saw that her self-effacing proposal was quite irrelevant. All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. Love and patience- if only he had had them both at once- would surely have seen them both through.
Why were there no words that spoke positively about being concerned about the self? Why was there only negative connotation in terms like "selfish", "self-interested", "self-centred", "self-obsessed" and so on? Why was it so much better to be without a self: "selfless", "self-sacrificing", "self-effacing", etc?
They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don’t need to prove anything to the world:
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Appears in: USA TODAY.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2013).