Meaning of JACTITATION
| Pronunciation: | | `jakti'teyshun
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- [n] (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness
- [n] a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law)
- [n] speaking of yourself in superlatives
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| | Synonyms: | | boast, boasting, jactation, self-praise |
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| | See Also: | | bluster, brag, braggadocio, bragging, crow, crowing, lie, line-shooting, prevarication, restlessness, rhodomontade, rodomontade, self-assertion, speech act, uneasiness, vaporing, vaunt | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Jac"ti*ta"tion\, n. [L. jactitare to utter in
public, from jactare. See {Jactancy}.]
1. (Law) Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the
prejudice of another's right; false claim. --Mozley & W.
2. (Med.) A frequent tossing or moving of the body;
restlessness, as in delirium. --Dunglison.
{Jactitation of marriage} (Eng. Eccl. Law), a giving out or
boasting by a party that he or she is married to another,
whereby a common reputation of their matrimony may ensue.
--Blackstone.
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| | Related Terms: | | ague, bluster, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, bravado, bumpiness, chattering, chorea, cold shivers, conceit, fanfaronade, fits and starts, gasconade, gasconism, heroics, jactation, jerkiness, joltiness, palsy, quaking, quavering, quivering, rodomontade, shakes, shaking, shivering, shivers, shuddering, side, spasms, succussion, swagger, trembling, tremulousness, vanity, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, vibration |
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