Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to stet
Participle: stetted
Gerund: stetting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | stet |
| you | stet |
| he;she;it | stets |
| we | stet |
| you | stet |
| they | stet |
Perfect
| I | have stetted |
| you | have stetted |
| he;she;it | has stetted |
| we | have stetted |
| you | have stetted |
| they | have stetted |
Past
| I | stetted |
| you | stetted |
| he;she;it | stetted |
| we | stetted |
| you | stetted |
| they | stetted |
Pluperfect
| I | had stetted |
| you | had stetted |
| he;she;it | had stetted |
| we | had stetted |
| you | had stetted |
| they | had stetted |
Future
| I | will stet |
| you | will stet |
| he;she;it | will stet |
| we | will stet |
| you | will stet |
| they | will stet |
Future Perfect
| I | will have stetted |
| you | will have stetted |
| he;she;it | will have stetted |
| we | will have stetted |
| you | will have stetted |
| they | will have stetted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | stet |
| you | stet |
| he;she;it | stet |
| we | stet |
| you | stet |
| they | stet |
Perfect
| I | have stetted |
| you | have stetted |
| he;she;it | have stetted |
| we | have stetted |
| you | have stetted |
| they | have stetted |
Imperfect
| I | stetted |
| you | stetted |
| he;she;it | stetted |
| we | stetted |
| you | stetted |
| they | stetted |
Pluperfect
| I | had stetted |
| you | had stetted |
| he;she;it | had stetted |
| we | had stetted |
| you | had stetted |
| they | had stetted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would stet |
| you | would stet |
| he;she;it | would stet |
| we | would stet |
| you | would stet |
| they | would stet |
Perfect
| I | would have stetted |
| you | would have stetted |
| he;she;it | would have stetted |
| we | would have stetted |
| you | would have stetted |
| they | would have stetted |
Imperative
| you | stet |
| we | Let's stet |
| you | stet |
Verbs conjugated like 'stet'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'stet'
set,
snet,
spet,
stat,
steg,
stem,
stent,
step,
stew,
stut,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stet (“let it stand”), an inflection of stō (“to stand”).
Sample Sentences
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Stet that colon.
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To stet in the fifth line these words , "Any minister of the Church of England or" [1890, North Carolina, William Laurence Saunders, The Colonial Records of North Carolina, volume 7, page 329:]
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I believe the word "stet" is unnecessary and confusing; that it is used only on the margin when something has has been crossed off in the body of the text and is also used only with the dots (the stet marks ........) placed under the words in the body of the matter to be stetted—or to let stand as they were. [1914, “The Use of "Stet" in Proof Correction”, in Printing Trade News, From the Mail Sack, page 21:]
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Moreover it was unanously resolved to place a resolution on the A.D.M. agenda asking for the stetting of the recommendation that was deleted at Newport last year. [1934, The Journalist, volumes 17-19, page 39:]
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Truly, American copy-editing has fallen into a state of demoralized confusion over hyphenated and unhyphenated compounds—or at least, I am demoralized and confused, having just gone through the manuscript of a novel in which a very smart and careful and goodnatured copy-editor has deleted about two hundred of my innocent tinkertoy hyphens. I wrote “stet hyphen” in the margin so many times that I finally abbreviated it to “SH”—but there was no wicked glee in my intransigence: I didn’t want to be the typical prose prima donna who made her life difficult. [1993 November 4, Nicholson Baker, “Survival of the Fittest”, in The New York Review of Books, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2024:]
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I respectfully submit the following statement in accordance with the order of the Convention:MAY TERM, 1864. / Indictments found....18 / Convicted....12 / Acquitted....5 / Stetted....2 [1867, Maryland. Constitutional Convention, Proceedings of the State Convention of Maryland, page 64:]
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A protest has been set up by the Maryland Board of Pharmacy against the action of the state's attorney in stetting three indictments against M. A. Potocki, of Baltimore, who was on trial on five charges of violating the medical practice act [1914, The Journal of the National Association of Retail Druggists, page 232:]
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Appellant contends that the indictment, having been stetted [in Maryland], it is no longer in force and effect (Applt.'s Brief, Point IV). It is submitted that the stetting of an indictment is equivalent only to a discharge of a defendant on his own recognizance. [c. 1924, John E. McGeehan, “Thomas Wells Cole v. Richard E. Enright”, in Supreme Court, State of New York, Appellate Division—First Department, page 28:]
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("To be eligible for a stet, the defendant must waive his right to a speedy trial.") (stating that when a prosecutor "stets" a case, the state is declining to prosecute it [2013, CT Harrington, “Breaking the cycle and stepping out of the revolving door: Why the pre-adjudication model is the way forward for Illinois Mental Health Courts”, in Univ. Illinois Law Review:]