stet Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb printing: cancel, as of a correction or deletion
  2. verb printing: direct that a matter marked for omission or correction is to be retained (used in the imperative)

WordNet

Stet
Etymology
L., subj. 3d pers. sing. of stare to stand, remain.
See Stand.
Definitions
  1. (Print.) Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.
Stet transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Stetted ; present participle & verbal noun Stetting
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913