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Sign in to saveright|96px|A dele. A dele or deleatur (, ) is an obelism (a proofreading symbol) used to mark something for deletion.
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right|96px|A dele. A dele or deleatur (, ) is an obelism (a proofreading symbol) used to mark something for deletion.
==Name== Dele, the more common term in modern American English (sometimes used as a verb, e.g. "Dele that graf"), coincides with the imperative form of the Latin delere ("to delete"). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes an earlier use in English of deleatur (Latin "let it be deleted"), and suggests that dele in English may have been an abbreviation for the longer word.