Definitions
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- verb Alternative form of
italicize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb print in italics
Etymologies
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Examples
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As a new reader I'm trying to understand why you italicise some English words and phrases that don't appear to have anything to do with the italicised French words.
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Only those the splendidly self-confident British upper classes would deign to deliberately and with self-ease not italicise a French loanword; in doing so, I was in fact expressing my position as not being of such social elevation.
Matthew Yglesias » Rich Bankers: We Want Trillions of Dollars 2009
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List all the authors that you have read for the first time this year, italicise those that are debut novels [to the best of my knowledge], and award stars to those authors you will read again (or have read again since).
Authors new to me, idea via Norman Maxine 2008
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As a new reader I'm trying to understand why you italicise some English words and phrases that don't appear to have anything to do with the italicised French words.
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List all the authors that you have read for the first time this year, italicise those that are debut novels [to the best of my knowledge], and award stars to those authors you will read again (or have read again since).
Authors new to me, idea via Norman Maxine 2008
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List all the authors that you have read for the first time this year, italicise those that are debut novels [to the best of my knowledge], and award stars to those authors you will read again (or have read again since).
December 2008 Maxine 2008
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If one wants to emphasize something highlight, italicise, underline, anything but caps.
Basic Netiquette For Email Lists And Forums | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Too late to italicise those virtual world names you missed italicising on page 18, then?
Mapping finalized 2010
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His captain, the enormously experienced 35-year-old Giovanni van Bronckhorst, did not need to italicise the contrast with past tournaments when he spoke of the closeness of the squad.
World Cup 2010: Dutch learn to put function above flair 2010
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Bold if you've read (all of) them, italicise if you've started but not finished (inc some but not all of a series) and strikethrough if you hated them.
The 20 Books from 20 Years meme nwhyte 2008
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