0 official permission to do something that is given by a person or group in a position of power:
1 official approval of something or permission to do something:
Some of the largest investment banks also provide an imprimatur of business respectability on the borrower.
2 official permission to publish a book:
The Guide was published with the imprimatur of the U.S. architectural industry group.
She illustrates the real power that imperial imprimatur gave to temples and to shrines.
After that the government had neglected but not completely abandoned its interest in the imprimatur.
An architecture of timber can carry an imprimatur of sustainable value that is often based on an idealised notion of local sourcing.
For this purpose, they sought the imprimatur of the classical community.
A huge number of his instrumental pieces survive in multiple versions, some of which were designed as replacements, others of which provide alternatives bearing the composer's imprimatur.
Natural law not only bore the imprimatur of reason, it also displayed the benevolent wisdom of the creator or of a pantheistic nature.
A policy which is favoured with the imprimatur of 'opportunity' may be better resourced than one with the unfashionable stamp of 'welfare', but both coexist.
Is it to be debated for all time because it has received that imprimatur?
