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- noun Plural form of
imprimatur .
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Examples
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After setting out certain Italian imprimaturs, he remarks:
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I can't put my book label imprimaturs on the beloved tomes I loan.
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I can't put my book label imprimaturs on the beloved tomes I loan.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Melanie Chartoff 2010
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I can't put my book label imprimaturs on the beloved tomes I loan.
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Eddie TulasiewiczLondon• Some of us can only dream of appearing in a crossword clue Letters, 15 February, but the bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf did once call me the Keith Flett of the Church of England, which, as episcopal imprimaturs go, is surely approaching ultramundane.
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The century-old, die-hard view of gifted people destined to unravel may have begun as the projected id fantasy of a repressed owning class at the turn of the 1900s; as one of the currently accepted imprimaturs of true creativity, of surfeit sensitivity, this fiction comes down unchecked and unchallenged to a generation of 20- to 30-somethings -- famous and just regular -- who suffer real tragedy under its seductive and silly directives.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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But politeness, civility and shaking hands are not imprimaturs of agreement.
Ed Koch: What's on My Tombstone, and Why Ed Koch 2011
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The century-old, die-hard view of gifted people destined to unravel may have begun as the projected id fantasy of a repressed owning class at the turn of the 1900s; as one of the currently accepted imprimaturs of true creativity, of surfeit sensitivity, this fiction comes down unchecked and unchallenged to a generation of 20- to 30-somethings -- famous and just regular -- who suffer real tragedy under its seductive and silly directives.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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But politeness, civility and shaking hands are not imprimaturs of agreement.
Ed Koch: What's on My Tombstone, and Why Ed Koch 2011
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There are many works from the 60s and 70s that were given imprimaturs that later turned out to be not so theologically sound.
Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West 2009
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