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Definition of Stet
1. Verb. Printing: cancel, as of a correction or deletion.
2. Verb. Printing: direct that a matter marked for omission or correction is to be retained (used in the imperative).
Generic synonyms: Direct
Definition of Stet
1. subj. 3d pers. sing. Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.
2. v. t. To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote.
Definition of Stet
1. to cancel a previously made printing correction [v STETTED, STETTING, STETS]