effacement
Noun
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Noun
effacement
- The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.
- 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.
- 2007, John Zerzan, Silence, page 3:
- (medicine) A shortening, or thinning, of the cervix before or during early labour.
- French: effacement
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