Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stet"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stet \Stet\, L., subj. 3d pers. sing. of stare to stand, remain.
[See {Stand}.] (Print.)
Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that
something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stet \Stet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stetted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Stetting}.] (Print.)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
stet
v 1: printing: cancel, as of a correction or deletion
2: printing: direct that a matter marked for omission or
correction is to be retained (used in the imperative)
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