Definitions for imprimaturs

imprimaturs im·pri·ma·tur

Spelling: [im-pri-mah-ter, -mey-, -prahy-]
IPA: /ˌɪm prɪˈmɑ tər, -ˈmeɪ-, -praɪ-/

Imprimaturs is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 550 anagrams from letters in imprimaturs (aiimmprrstu).

Definitions for imprimaturs

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:
  3. 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.
  4. sanction or approval; support:

Origin of imprimaturs

1630-40; New Latin: let it be printed, Latin: let it be made by pressing upon (something); see impress1

Examples for imprimaturs

I mean it depends on his permission; his imprimatur; his nihil obstat.

On the verso of the half-title is the imprimatur, dated February 6, 1722.

So this book sees the light with their imprimatur, and we therefore publish it with the greatest confidence.

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

The Vice-Chancellor's imprimatur (for it was printed at Oxford) is dated the 19th, 1713.

In the new creation of the human mind it was imprimatur—let it be printed.

He passed this section of work or that, and gave the other his imprimatur.

Work of men's hands they may be, but they bear the imprimatur of nature.

This imprimatur is stamped upon the first page of the text in every book.

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

In the new creation of the human mind it was imprimatur—let it be printed.

This imprimatur is stamped upon the first page of the text in every book.

Work of men's hands they may be, but they bear the imprimatur of nature.

The Vice-Chancellor's imprimatur (for it was printed at Oxford) is dated the 19th, 1713.

So this book sees the light with their imprimatur, and we therefore publish it with the greatest confidence.

He passed this section of work or that, and gave the other his imprimatur.

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

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

I mean it depends on his permission; his imprimatur; his nihil obstat.

On the verso of the half-title is the imprimatur, dated February 6, 1722.

Word Value for imprimaturs
Scrable

16

Words with friends

20

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