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Indelible ink

Indelible \In*del"i*ble\, a. [L. indelebilis; pref. in- not + delebilis capable of being destroyed: cf. F. ind['e]l['e]bile. See In- not, and Deleble.] [Formerly written also indeleble, which accords with the etymology of the word.]

  1. That can not be removed, washed away, blotted out, or effaced; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten; as, indelible characters; an indelible stain; an indelible impression on the memory.

  2. That can not be annulled; indestructible. [R.]

    They are endued with indelible power from above.
    --Sprat.

    Indelible colors, fast colors which do not fade or tarnish by exposure.

    Indelible ink, an ink not obliterated by washing; esp., a solution of silver nitrate.

    Syn: Fixed; fast; permanent; ineffaceable. -- In*del"i*ble*ness, n. -- In*del"i*bly, adv.

    Indelibly stamped and impressed.
    --J. Ellis.

WordNet
indelible ink

n. ink that cannot be erased or washed away

Wikipedia
Indelible Ink

Indelible Ink (2010) is a novel by Australian author Fiona McGregor. It won the Fiction Prize and Book of the Year Award at The Age Book of the Year awards in 2011.

Usage examples of "indelible ink".

However, he added, since I'd given him something he hadn't asked for, he'd repay me with something I didn't need: a blank ID-card and enough indelible ink to sign it with my name.

Diagonally across its face from the upper left- to the lower right-hand corner extended two parallel scorings in indelible ink.

They had already been stamped with indelible ink on entering Atiran-tikkasita and, now they were about to exit, the harbour-master's cachet was added to the growing collection on the inside of their forearms.

Stern used to tell her how his father had somehow managed to mark his memory as a child with every name and event from his long years of wandering, in the course of time narrating his entire journey much as a blind man might have done in the days when there was no other way for the stages of the past to be passed from generation to generation, in effect rewriting the haj of his life in indelible ink upon his young son's mind, swirling stroke around stroke in the complex etching of a spiritual stylus.

Lingua mea calamus scribae velociter scribentis: magna voce cantitans (did a piss, says he was dejected, asks to be exonerated), demum ex stercore turpi cum divi Orionis iucunditate mixto, cocto, frigorique exposito, encaustum sibi fecit indelibile (faked O'Ryan's, the indelible ink).

On the side a number was written very small in indelible ink-- S465--where a size number would be, but I knew it wasn't a size number because Verschoyle, Inc.

I have taken the numbers of the bills and have also marked them with indelible ink.

It was the colour of indelible ink on blotting paper, and was ornamented at the waist with flowers of emerald green and pink.

Morgot took two swabs from each of them, one vaginal, one rectal, dropping them into the vial that Stavia held ready before she sealed the woman on the forehead with indelible ink.

He unrolled a piece of silken paper, very expensive, but durable and nearly impervious to water once the indelible ink had dried.

Its milky juice is also used as an indelible ink for marking linen, and as an ingredient of liquid dressings or varnishes for finishing boots or shoes, though R.

It wrote everything you perceived with it upon your memory in indelible ink, and those memories were always there, fresh and harsh when you went back to them, never blurring with the passage of time, never growing easier to endure.

On her undergarments she had painted the words of the death prayer in indelible ink, a custom done only by those going off to die.

All that time they did not know that already, in dried, indelible ink, their names were recorded on seizure lists.