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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Stet

/(stĕt)/ · IPA /stɛt/
01 Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.
  1. 1.
    Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.(Print.)
02 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 th…
imp. & p. p. Stetted; p. pr. & vb. n. Stetting
  1. 1.
    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.(Print.)