noun
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An official license to publish or print something, especially when censorship applies.
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(by extension) Any mark of official approval.
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Examples of imprimatur in a Sentence
The New Penguin version bears the imprimatur of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Indeed, Holland became the home of modern religious liberty, the haven of innumerable free spirits, and the centre of activity of printers and publishers, who asked for no other imprimatur than the prospect of intelligent readers.
There can be no doubt that Professor Burmeister discharged his editorial duty with the most conscientious scrupulosity; but, from what has been just said, it is certain that there were important points on which Nitzsch was as yet undecided - some of them perhaps of which no trace appeared in his manuscripts, and therefore as in every case of works posthumously published, unless (as rarely happens) they have received their author's " imprimatur," they cannot be implicitly trusted as the expression of his final views.
On the 2 1st of January 1903 Cardinal Richard publicly condemned the book, as not furnished with an imprimatur, and as calculated gravely to trouble the faith of the faithful in the fundamental Catholic dogmas.
It was approved by a committee of the diet and received the royal imprimatur in 1514, but was never published.
It was submitted to a committee of influential Jansenists, with the duc de Roannez at their head, and, in addition, it bore the imprimatur of numerous unofficial approvers who testified to its orthodoxy.
The language may already have received the ultimate imprimatur.
Aristotelian logic secured the imprimatur of the revived Platonism, and it was primarily because of this that it passed into the service of Christian theology.
The Lincean Academy collapsed with the death of Prince Federigo Cesi, its founder and president; an outbreak of plague impeded communication between the various Italian cities; and the imprimatur was finally extorted, rather than accorded, under the pressure of private friendship and powerful interest.
A distinguished scholar from elsewhere gave an imprimatur regarding standards.
You criticize Gilson; yet his work is still regarded by many as authoritative and, of course, carried the imprimatur * .
They are the arbiters of taste and I think generally people accept what is being exhibited because it has the imprimatur of the institution.
In that year that the Licensing Act lapsed, and books no longer required an official imprimatur in order to published.