[f. as prec. + -MENT.] The action of erasing; obliteration; total demolition (of cities).
1721. Bailey, Erasement, a blotting or dashing out.
1753. Ward, Rom. Inscr., in Phil. Trans., XLVIII. 345. There are … no traces of the word sua now remaining;… which makes me suspect, there has been an erasement.
1769. Gentl. Mag., Jan., 52/1. The Grand Jury’s erasement of the words aiding and assisting.
1812. Barclay, Erasement, applied to buildings and cities, entire destruction and demolition.
1837. Blackw. Mag., XLII. 749. Not on Russia alone does the guilt of her erasement from the book of nations rest.
