stets
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present tense formof stet (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
stetverb (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).
Example Sentences
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The famous couplet— Ein Teil von jener Kraft Die stets das Böse will, und stets das Gute schafft— is far from expressing the Hegelian commonplace with which it is usually identified.
From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by George Santayana
Yet the satanically refined egoism which lays hold of Septimius is the same spirit incarnated in Goethe's Mephistopheles,—der Geist der stets verneint.
From A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop
In that dark face before them was Mephistopheles at least—der Geist der stets verneint—if nothing more violent.
From The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill
As a class, they may be called Geister die stets verneinen,—they are almost invariably in opposition to the party in power.
From Notes of an Itinerant Policeman by Josiah Flynt