stetting

Variant of stet

stet definition

stet (stet)

impersonal verb

let it stand: a printer's term used to indicate that matter previously marked for deletion is to remain

Etymology: L, 3d pers. sing., pres. subj., of stare, to stand

transitive verb stetted stet′·ted, stetting stet′·ting

to cancel a change in or a marked deletion of (a word, character, passage, etc., as in a proof or manuscript), as by writing “stet” in the margin and underlining stetted matter with a row of dots

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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