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imprimatur

[ im-pri-mah-ter, im-prim-uh-ter; especially British, im-pri-mey-ter ]

noun

  1. an official license to print or publish a book, pamphlet, etc., especially a license issued by a censor of the Roman Catholic Church. Compare nihil obstat.
  2. sanction or approval; support:

    Our plan has the company president's imprimatur.



imprimatur

/ -ˈmɑː-; ˌɪmprɪˈmeɪtə /

noun

  1. RC Church a licence granted by a bishop certifying the Church's approval of a book to be published
  2. sanction, authority, or approval, esp for something to be printed


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Word History and Origins

Origin of imprimatur1

First recorded in 1630–40; from New Latin: literally, “let it be printed,” Latin: literally, “let it be made by pressing upon (something)”; impress 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of imprimatur1

C17: New Latin, literally: let it be printed

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Example Sentences

Froomkin believes that, instead of helping struggling, smaller news organizations, Facebook News breaches traditional journalistic ethics and gives the maligned social media giant an undeserved imprimatur of legitimacy.

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The size of the deal, and the imprimatur of the Pentagon as a customer, could spark business from other customers.

I happen to think that the Politico staffers were right to oppose their news organization granting its imprimatur to someone with Shapiro’s history of performative bigotry.

It could settle in for a long run, which a Tony imprimatur would help.

What makes CEOs think that putting their imprimatur on a political movement will increase public pressure on the two parties?

And yet, when he leaked the case to Congress, he carried the institutional imprimatur of the FBI in his attaché case.

From a Wall Street perspective, Buffett got privileged, and not level-playing-field, access as a payoff for his imprimatur.

The imprimatur of the Bank of England was plainly to be seen, and the huge figures stood out boldly.

Editions with a clerical "imprimatur" have been always published where laymen have been substituted for these.

They should be exceedingly careful not to give their imprimatur to books which are Modernist in any way.

There is any amount of fundamental teaching there and the imprimatur of thousands of good men to assure us of it.

I comply with the request with much pleasure, though I feel that the paper needs no imprimatur of mine.

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