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stetting

Variant of stet

impersonal verb

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

transitive verb stetted, stetting

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

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