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stet
[ stet ]
verb (used without object)
- let it stand (used imperatively as a direction on a printer's proof, manuscript, or the like, to retain material previously cancelled, usually accompanied by a row of dots under or beside the material).
verb (used with object)
- to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.
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Origin of stet1
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Example Sentences
The Crown retired from the suit with a stet processus, and Mr. Bradlaugh was left with the laurels—and his costs.
You were going to give me my regular ten days vacation next week, you know, continued Stet to Darry.
He had just finished cutting a weeks supply of kindling wood in the wood shed, when Stet popped into view over the back fence.
In the privacy of his room, Orne pressed the transceiver stud at his neck, said: "Stet?"
This thought alarmed her and so she smiled very sweetly at Stet as she murmured, "Would you mind reading this?"
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