Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See italicization, italicize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the process of
italicising ; somethingitalicised
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Examples
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But I would never write anything which requires lots of italicisation in Garamond because I think the angle is far too steep.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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It has a certain homogenic quality plus it suffers from a severe excess of italicisation.
Carnophallogocentric 2006
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| The italicisation of Japanese words has been standardised.
The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)
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| The italicisation of Japanese words has been standardised.
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But they did not strictly adhere to these rules, and, while they often failed to italicise the words that deserved italicisation, they freely italicised others that did not merit it.
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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| Accented letters, italicisation and the punctuation of |
Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron 1877
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I am inclined to think from this italicisation that it was Mary Lamb's new seizure that was the real impulse of the poem.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays Charles Lamb 1804
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In standard English, the word is adopted and Anglicised as paddy (not italicised, pronounced as "pa.di"), whereas we use the original word padi without italicisation but pronounced like the
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| accents, hyphenation and italicisation are very inconsistent |
The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Joseph Harris
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In a Dickensian set-up, Jonathan and Janine had to read out long legal documents to each other and verbally put in "punctuation, italicisation, formatting and so on.
A life in writing: Jonathan Coe Paul Laity 2010
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