unboldface

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ boldface.

Verb

unboldface (third-person singular simple present unboldfaces, present participle unboldfacing, simple past and past participle unboldfaced)

1. To make not boldface.
   • 1985, Brian Gallagher, Microcomputers and Word Processing Programs: An Evaluation and Critique, page 53:

     […] making these functions even slower and more distracting to perform, since the screen had to be watched very closely and some words and characters gone over three or four times to get them underlined or "unboldfaced."

   • 1988 November 29, Dean Hannotte, “WordPerfect”, in PC Magazine, volume 7, number 20, page 132:

     Microsoft Word doesn’t make you look under the hood and be your own mechanic just to unboldface or uncenter a bit of text.

   • 1991, Nelda Shelton, Sharon Burton, Using WordPerfect 5.1 (Houghton Mifflin Software Solutions Series), Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 63:

     Unboldfacing Text / To unboldface a block of text, use these steps. ① Move the cursor to the first character of the text to be unboldfaced—in this case, to the U in U.S.

   • 1998, Ralph Grabowski, editor, Using AutoCAD Release 14, Autodesk Press, page 13-18:

     Click the button a second time to “unboldface” the text, making it regular text.

   • 2009, John C. Tredennick, The Lawyer’s Guide to Microsoft® Excel 2007, American Bar Association, →ISBN:

     When you click on the Bold command the first time, Excel may actually unboldface cell A3, leaving the other cells alone. Click it a second time, and it boldfaces the row.