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Definition of Italicises
1. italicise [v] - See also: italicise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Italicises
Literary usage of Italicises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Authorized Edition of the English Bible (1611): Its Subsequent Reprints by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener (1884)
"... Hebrew article with the participle of the Niphal conjugation, and so in 1611
was printed in ordinary characters, the edition of 1638 wrongly italicises ..."
2. The Common School Controversy: Consisting of Three Letters of the Secretary by Horace Mann, Edward A. Newton (1844)
"He italicises the word "direct'' in the 23d section, and may mean that though
the committees may not direct, they may furnish to be used books of a ..."
3. The Substance of the Argument Delivered Before the Judicial Committee of the by Archibald John Stephens (1872)
"It is remarkable, that the learned Judge italicises this passage—it being in direct
... His Lordship also italicises the following language of Seeker, viz. ..."
4. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1897)
"... doubly wrong when he italicises " light insulation " to support his own argument
in favour of lightly insulated twin conductors drawn into insulated ..."
5. Old Picture Books: Words of Good Counsel on the Choice and Use of Books by James Baldwin, Oakland Free Library, Alfred William Pollard (1902)
"In Herrick's 'No Bashfulness in Begging'— 'To get thine ends, lay bashfulness
aside, Who fears to ask doth teach to be deny'a"— the line he italicises is ..."
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