[f. as prec. + -MENT.] The process of effacing; the fact of being effaced.
1797. Monthly Rev., XXIII. 572. A state of simplicity … subsequent to the effacement of the vices of barbarism.
1866. Wedgwood, Origin of Lang., 7. Effacement of a sense from want of practice.
1876. Mozley, Univ. Serm., v. 112. The effacement of the national sentiment is an artificial and violent evasion of a fact of nature.
