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He looked as though he had never heard of the word patience.

Should the term patience be in italics or quotation marks?

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  • Welcome to the site. Depending upon the context of the sentence, and the style guide of the publication in which it appeared, or of the organization which published it, either would be permissible, though I would expect that quotation marks would be the preferred method of most organizations or publications. – brasshat Sep 13 '14 at 05:06
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