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• plural of italic.

italics

Cultural  

1. Slanted letters that look like this: We the people. Italics are most often used to emphasize certain words, to indicate that they are in a foreign language, or to set off the title of a literary or artistic work.

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Example Sentences

Italics are used liberally, and verb tenses jump all over the place.

From Salon • Apr. 2, 2013

In the Little Italics of Manhattan and California he interviewed priests, millionaires, anarchists, labor leaders�all good Americans, who admired Roosevelt and Mussolini as they once admired Washington and Garibaldi.

From Time Magazine Archive

I then commenced and continued copying the Italics in Webster’s Spelling Book, until I could make them all without looking on the book.

From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass

Italics are used with the titles of books or of periodicals, with the names of ships, and with foreign words which are still felt to be emphatically foreign. f.

From The Century Handbook of Writing by Greever, Garland

The words printed in Italics are supplied to complete the sense.

From Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various