Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of underscoring words in writing, or of printing words underscored in italic type; italicizing. Also spelled
italicisation .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the process of
italicizing ; somethingitalicized
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Examples
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The italicization is the last line of W.S. Merwin's poem "History," which is much about autumn and endings, about consciousness and its place in the universe, about the turnings of history and the inadequacy of language to capture them.
Mayhill Fowler: Off To Cover The Obama Grassroots: I Was Not Going To Be Long 2008
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The italicization is the last line of W.S. Merwin's poem "History," which is much about autumn and endings, about consciousness and its place in the universe, about the turnings of history and the ina ...
Mayhill Fowler: Off To Cover The Obama Grassroots: I Was Not Going To Be Long 2008
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The italicization is the last line of W.S. Merwin's poem "History," which is much about autumn and endings, about consciousness and its place in the universe, about the turnings of history and the ina ...
Mayhill Fowler: Off To Cover The Obama Grassroots: I Was Not Going To Be Long 2008
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The fact that so many of these terms are in French, and thus require italicization, is not the only reason that the ballet jargon is problematic in this excerpt, however.
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The fact that so many of these terms are in French, and thus require italicization, is not the only reason that the ballet jargon is problematic in this excerpt, however.
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I mean, there are gimmicks and then there are awesome gimmicks. the latter demand italicization
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Sometimes, for example, italicization is used instead, as in (7):
Quotation Cappelen, Herman 2009
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But surely it would be absurd to suppose (consistently with Davidson's view) that the italicization of (3) 's subject term is itself a demonstrative expression!
Quotation Cappelen, Herman 2009
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You can also use the Usenet style of enclosing a word in * asterisks* or _underscores_ to convey boldness & italicization respectively when you cannot actually make text bold or italic.
Things Quotation Marks Shouldn’t Do « Motivated Grammar 2007
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You can also use the Usenet style of enclosing a word in * asterisks* or _underscores_ to convey boldness & italicization respectively when you cannot actually make text bold or italic.
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