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What are italics?

What are italics? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (typography, plural only) letters in an italic typeface.
  2. (usually plural but sometimes singular in construction) plural of italic: exaggerated intonation or some similar oral speech device by which one or more words is heavily and usually affectedly emphasized or otherwise given sharp prominence
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Please view the italics as simply the opposite of the regular format, and vice versa.
The species name is called the epithet of the species, and they are always printed in italics, by convention.
This means that the user will be able to combine italics, bold and underlined font if needed.
Please indicate italics by underlining and indicate boldface by drawing a wavy line beneath the affected characters.
In the following, italics are used for words in Swedish, while bold text indicates Old English, or Anglo-Saxon.
I've got this kind of gut feeling that using italics, bold, ellipsis, exclamation marks in your writing is lazy.

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