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What is the definition of italicize?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Italic print was a style of print which came from Italy. It was clear and gracefully slanted. It was easier on the eyes than the dark heavy German printing styles.

Over the years as new styles of type were invented, they often made variants. A variant which was gracefully slanted was called italic after the original Italic font style. As a result, we have a verb "to italicize" meaning to put into the italic variant of the font, usually for emphasis. Sometimes people use it just to mean "to emphasize"

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12y ago

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