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plural imprimaturs or imprimantur
(printing) An official license to publish or print something, especially when censorship applies. quotations examples
The Cheats · A Comedy · Written in the Year, M.DC.LXII. Imprimatur, Roger L'estrange. Nov. 5. 1663. By John Wilson
1664, John Wilson, The Cheats, publication info page
Sometimes 5 Imprimaturs are ſeen together dialogue-wiſe in the Piatza of one Title page, complementing and ducking each other with their ſhav'n reverences, whether the Author, who ſtands by in perplexity at the foot of his Epiſtle, ſhall to the Preſſe or to the ſpunge.
1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], page 8
(by extension) Any mark of official approval. quotations examples
Children, the final imprimatur to family life, are being borrowed, adopted, created by artificial insemination.
1988, New York Times, Gay fiction comes home
Even with the imprimatur of Tynan and Hobson, the play was not an instant hit.
2015 March 30, Michael Billington, “Look Back in Anger: how John Osborne liberated theatrical language”, in The Guardian