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Imprimatur

Imprimatur

In Roman Catholicism, the imprimatur (Latin) is the designation to “let it be printed.” This is a declaration by church authority that the work that has been written (book, pamphlet, track, etc.,) and has first received the nihil obstat (that nothing in it is objectionable to the Catholic faith) and that it is worthy of being printed and distributed to the members of the Roman Catholic Church.

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