The phrase "authoritative title" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a title that is recognized as having authority or credibility in a particular field or context.
Example: "The book was published under an authoritative title, ensuring that it would be taken seriously by scholars."
Alternatives: "official title" or "recognized title".
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An authoritative monograph title on a particular designer can stimulate new interest; ditto a museum retrospective.
Ms. Jones is, as usual, an authoritative presence in the title role of the cagey, spiny ur-feminist who organizes a sex boycott among the women of the warring city-states of Greece in order to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian War.
Often, an absence of authoritative land registration and titles makes it easy for foreign investors, with the connivance of host governments, to secure land that local communities have long depended upon, even if they cannot demonstrate formal ownership.
Whereas Mr. Araton's authoritative look at the title-winning New York Knicks of the 1970s struggles to stay clear-eyed while reverent, Mr. Raab's hate letter to LeBron James is comically bloody minded.
Where the original phrase suggested a sense of equality and partnership, the new one -- first uttered by a Blair aide and now in currency as the title of an authoritative book on American-British relations -- conveys a sense of vulnerability and wishfulness more appropriate to the present status of the relationship as seen from London.
"The title sounds very authoritative and over-confident... Food is very much related to race, identity, and cultural pride," Turner explained to The Huffington Post.
Poetically authoritative opening-night performances of both the title role (Carla Körbes) and Myrtha (Carrie Imler) made the familiar and unfamiliar passages equally captivating.
Don Fabrizio, the cultivated, calmly authoritative Prince of Salina — effectively the film's title character — lives in full consciousness of his historical position.
CHICAGO — There are perhaps a thousand ways to seize a conference title, but none more emphatic, more authoritative or more vehement than the method LeBron James chose Thursday night to send the Miami Heat to the N.B.A. finals.
