imprimatur

Engelsk

Substantiv

imprimatur (flertall: imprimaturs) (eller flertall: imprimatur)

1. offisiel lisens eller godkjennelse til å printe eller publisere en bok, et papir etc.; spesielt et lisens gitt av den romerske katolske prestedømme.
2. godkjennelse; sanksjon
3. et merke for godkjennelse eller forskjell

Eksempler

• «Vatican officials have overruled a 1994 decision by a bishop in England, ordering him to withdraw his imprimatur from a popular religious education text that had come under attack from conservatives.»

Vatican orders bishop to remove imprimatur, National Catholic Reporter, 27. februar, 1998

• «His name was known and respected on both sides of the Atlantic; his imprimatur on a stock or bond offering could be worth millions to the firm doing the issue.»

H. W. Brands, Masters of Enterprise

• «But neither controversial phenomena nor potentially illuminating but statistically insignificant research has had the imprimatur of a peer-reviewed journal -- until now.»

Kaja Perina, «Probing folklore & fringe science», Psychology Today, juli–august 2002

Etymologi

Imprimatur er fra ny-latin imprimatur, «la det bli printet», fra imprimere, «å printe inn», fra latinsk, fra in- + premere, «å trykke».