deleatur means dele (“mark signifying deletion”) Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 78 out of 100.
Why this word is great
DELEATUR — [Noun] A proofreading mark indicating that text should be deleted. From Latin dēleātur ("may it be deleted"), third person singular present passive subjunctive of dēlēre ("to delete, destroy"). Unlike "delete" (a blunt erasure) or "stet" (its reprieve), "deleatur" is the precise, editorial act of sentencing words to oblivion. It is the blue pencil’s slash through a careless phrase, the printer’s hand hovering over a typo, or the quiet violence of a manuscript’s margin where a single symbol—a looping, almost merciful strike—condemns what was once written. To mark with deleatur is to acknowledge that even language must sometimes be unmade.
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- dele (“mark signifying deletion”)“[…] having been ironically reprimanded for inventing ingenuous errors, [he] will have to allow the errors of others to pass, when what he is tempted to do, and rightly so, is to fill the margins of the page with a flurry of indignant deleaturs […]”