1. official licenses to print or publish a book, especially one granted by a censor or by a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical authority
Usage: formal; ecclesiastical
2. official approval or sanction
Usage: formal

Examples

• The manuscripts required imprimaturs from church authorities before publication.
• Several books were denied imprimaturs due to controversial content.
• The committee’s imprimaturs were necessary for the research proposals.
• Without proper imprimaturs, the documents could not be distributed.
• The publisher waited months for the official imprimaturs.
• These imprimaturs represented the final approval stage.