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Answer for the clue "Put a slant on? ", 9 letters:
italicize

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Word definitions for italicize in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to print in italics" (for emphasis, etc.), 1795, from italic + -ize . Related: Italicized ; italicizing .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. print in italics [syn: italicise ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context typography English) To put into italics. 2 (context figuratively English) To emphasize.

Usage examples of italicize.

And when he prints it, in England, France, Germany, and Italy, he italicizes it, puts some whooping exclamation-points after it, and sometimes explains it in a parenthesis.

Nevertheless, as the deep logic of actions ought always to be italicized by the historian, it is necessary here to call to mind and to repeat, even to satiety, that apart from the members of the Left, of whom a very small number were present, and whom we have mentioned by name, the three hundred Representatives who thus defiled before the eyes of the crowd, constituted the old Royalists and reactionary majority of the Assembly.

He probably thought he noticed a movement of surprise in me, for he accentuated and italicized these words.

Byron gathers into the bitter question all the sorrow of former superstition, while in the lines italicized, just above, he sums in the briefest and plainest English, all that we yet know, or may wisely think, about the Sun.

But wherever such italicized phrases appear in quotations, the reader should ascribe the emphasis to the writer, and not to the original authority.

The words italicized in the foregoing quotation are of special significance to-day.

One reads almost with a feeling of amazement the sentences we have italicized in the foregoing quotation.

A friendly, carved sign with italicized gold script welcomed all to boone creek library.

In one case, an italicized and indented paragraph has been indented 10 spaces to set it apart.

Dangerously excited, italicized with surefire lust, I poured myself a drink and scanned the letter for clues.

And when he prints it, in England, France, Germany, and Italy, he italicizes it, puts some whooping exclamation-points after it, and sometimes explains it in a parenthesis.

Nevertheless, as the deep logic of actions ought always to be italicized by the historian, it is necessary here to call to mind and to repeat, even to satiety, that apart from the members of the Left, of whom a very small number were present, and whom we have mentioned by name, the three hundred Representatives who thus defiled before the eyes of the crowd, constituted the old Royalists and reactionary majority of the Assembly.

Later, heading for his study, where he intended to drink scotch and smoke dope for a couple of hours, and examine his new destiny, he heard an italicized whisper through the half-open door of the boxroom that the boys shared (and were rapidly outgrowing): Daddy.

I have quoted directly from his book (the italicized lines in the “In Situ” section) and have based some of Kirpal Singh s methods of defusing on actual techniques that Hartley records.