deitalicization

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noun

The process of deitalicizing.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

noundeitalicization (uncountable)

alternative de-italicization

  1. uncountableThe process of deitalicizing.

    I have followed the current practice of decapitalization and deitalicization of this work.

    2002, Kathy Squadrito, “Locke and the Dispossession of the American Indian”, in Julie K. Ward, Tommy L. Lott, editors, Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays, Blackwell Publishers, →ISBN, page 121
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    When Charles Hockett equates ‘much human communication is itself about communication’ (deitalicization mine) with, [people] often indulge in communicative behaviour merely for the sake of the activity’ (1958:585) he obviously has a broader sense of ‘about’ in mind, in fact a different one.

    1975, Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute, page 30

    The first change involves parasegmentals, the main question at issue being the deitalicization of LOS.

    1986, Constantin-George Sandulescu, Clive Hart, editors, Assessing the 1984 Ulysses, Smythe, →ISBN, page 178

Synonyms & antonyms

Translations

French désitalicisation
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