Meaning & use
imprimatur
Official approval or sanction, especially formal permission from an authority to publish or proceed.
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The project finally received the government's imprimatur after months of review.
Without the bishop's imprimatur, the book could not be printed at the time.
A note on using this word
Imprimatur originally referred to Catholic Church licensing of publications, and today it broadly means any official stamp of approval.
Words with a similar meaning
approvalendorsement
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Words with an opposite meaning
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