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stet Printing.|stɛt|
[3rd sing. pres. subjunct. of L. stāre to stand.]
‘Let it stand’; a direction in the margin of a proof or MS. that matter which has been altered or struck out is to remain uncorrected. The direction occasionally signifies that a non-standard or irregular form should be retained. Cf. sic adv.
1755J. Smith Printer's Gram. xi. 277 Where words are struck out that are afterwards again approved of, they mark dots under such words, and write in the Margin, Stet. 1821Dibdin Bibliogr. etc. Tour I. 129, I could discover..that..he wished me to..leave him to his deles and stets! a1966‘M. na Gopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 295 A colossal imposition who will..cause your heart to beat like a sludge-hammer (stet).
Hence as v. trans., to cancel a correction or deletion of (words in a proof or MS.) by writing ‘stet’ in the margin and underlining the words with a series of dots; to write ‘stet’ against (an accidental deletion, miscorrection, etc.).
1875Southward Dict. Typogr. s.v. 1895G. B. Shaw Let. 16 Dec. (1965) I. 581 If you disagree with my deletions, you can dot them under and ‘stet’ them. 1968K. Martin Editor i. 19 On the same line I had ‘stetted’ another word which had been accidentally crossed out. 1975J. Butcher Copy-Editing iii. 26 Stet American and all unusual spellings that are to be retained. |
