[
US
/ˌɪmpɹɪˈmɑtɝ/
]
[ UK /ɪmpɹˈɪmətʃˌɔː/ ]
[ UK /ɪmpɹˈɪmətʃˌɔː/ ]
NOUN
-
formal and explicit approval
a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement
How To Use imprimatur In A Sentence
- An imprimatur is not guarantee of theological soundness, in reality. Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West
- If this book bears the imprimatur of one person above any other, it is undoubtedly hers.
- I firmly believe that a consumer 'database'-the word database in this case is actually a misnomer-carrying the government's imprimatur must only include data that is accurate. Slate Magazine
- Yet even those newspapers that were not published directly by the government continued to seek its consent and imprimatur.
- Bush had managed to acquire United Nations imprimatur.
- The presence of God in humanity is a more difficult concept for me, since man is obviously capable of despicable evil, either individually or stamped with the imprimatur of the state. I saw TDVC and I almost lost my faith...
- He was pleased to have the Commissioner's blessing, the official imprimatur. MAMBO
- December 3, 2008 26 pp. of recycled neocon lite rubbish from Richard Haas and Martin Indyk, under the imprimatur of the Brookings Inst.: 03 « December « 2008 « Niqnaq
- Perhaps you mean that we need the moral imprimatur of this august and esteemed body.
- In 1564 the original list became an updated and patrolled index, with professional theologians censoring texts and affixing imprimaturs, denying approval, or delaying approval until corrections were made.