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imprimantur

UK/ɪm.pɹɪˈmæn.tʊə/US/ɪm.pɹɪˈmæn.tʊɹ/

imprimantur is the plural of imprimatur.

Meaning of imprimatur

Noun

imprimatur (plural imprimaturs or imprimantur)

  1. An official license to publish or print something, especially when censorship applies.
    • The Cheats · A Comedy · Written in the Year, M.DC.LXII. Imprimatur, Roger L'estrange. Nov. 5. 1663. By John Wilson1664, John Wilson, The Cheats, publication info page
  2. (broadly) Any mark of official approval.
    • Children, the final imprimatur to family life, are being borrowed, adopted, created by artificial insemination.1988 June 19, Richard Hall, “Gay Fiction Comes Home”, in New York Times

Origin of imprimantur

From Latin imprimantur (“let them be printed”), third-person plural present subjunctive passive form of imprimere (“to print”).

Questions about imprimantur

What is imprimantur the plural of?
Imprimantur is the plural of imprimatur.
How do you pronounce imprimantur?
Imprimantur is pronounced /ɪm.pɹɪˈmæn.tʊə/ (UK).

Words near imprimantur in the dictionary

  1. impresting
  2. imprests
  3. impreventable
  4. imprevisibility
  5. imprevisible
  6. imprimantur
  7. imprimatur
  8. imprimatura
  9. imprimaturs
  10. imprime
  11. imprimed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imprimantur (page history and authors); imprimatur (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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