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Possibly there has never been a King in all history that has effaced himself so completely as has King Vittorio.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is recorded also that he was much employed in his native city of Florence; but the vandalism of later generations has effaced nearly all that he did there.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

We go from person to person, from scene to scene; so that at the end of the journey, although the perception has been richly crowded, one impression has effaced the other.

From Essays Æsthetical by Calvert, George H. (George Henry)

But the conflagration which happened on the 2nd April, 1841, has effaced the memory of all other events of the same nature.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

Following close behind comes a group of favoured dames of a certain age, from whose minds time has effaced all remembrance of country and of kindred.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis