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Effacement vs Expunging - What's the difference?

effacement | expunging |

As nouns the difference between effacement and expunging

is that effacement is the act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement while expunging is the act by which something is expunged; a deletion.

As a verb expunging is

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effacement

English

(wikipedia effacement)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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 .
  • (medicine) A shortening, or thinning, of the cervix before or during early labour.

    • expunging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is expunged; a deletion.
  • * (Jonathan Swift)
    • Neither do they seem to remember the many alterations, additions, and expungings made by great authors, in those treatises which they prepare for the publick.

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