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Perhaps emphasised letters seen as unusually idealistic (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

italicised

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'perhaps emphasised' is the definition.
'italicised' can be an answer for 'emphasised' ('emphasized'->'italicized' is in my internal thesaurus and 'ize'->'ise'). I'm unsure of the 'perhaps' bit.

'letters seen as unusually idealistic' is the wordplay.
'idealistic' anagrams to 'ITALICISED'.
But, I'm not clear how this is indicated.

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(Other definitions for italicised that I've seen before include "Drew attention to" , "Inclined to stress" , "Stressed" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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