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jactitation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun jactitation has 3 senses
- jactitation(n = noun.communication) boast, boasting, self-praise - speaking of yourself in superlatives; Array is a kind of speech act
- jactitation(n = noun.communication) Array - (law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law); Array is a kind of lie, prevarication
- jactitation(n = noun.attribute) jactation - (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness; Array is a kind of queasiness, restlessness, uneasiness
has particulars: brag, bragging, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing, bluster, braggadocio, rhodomontade, rodomontade, vaunt, self-assertion
Derived form verb jactitate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
jactitation, n. [L. jactitare to utter in public, from jactare. See Jactancy.].
- Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the prejudice of another's right; false claim. Mozley & W. [1913 Webster]
- A frequent tossing or moving of the body; restlessness, as in delirium. Dunglison. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
jactitation, n.
1 Med. a the restless tossing of the body in illness. b the twitching of a limb or muscle.
2 archaic the offence of falsely claiming to be a person's wife or husband.
1 Med. a the restless tossing of the body in illness. b the twitching of a limb or muscle.
2 archaic the offence of falsely claiming to be a person's wife or husband.
Etymology
med.L jactitatio false declaration f. L jactitare boast, frequent. of jactare throw: sense 1 f. earlier jactation
THESAURUS
jactitation
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, vibrationROGET THESAURUS
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Boasting
N boasting, boast, vaunt, crake, pretense, pretensions, puff, puffery, flourish, fanfaronade, gasconade, blague, bluff, gas, highfalutin, highfaluting, hot air, spread-eagleism, brag, braggardism, bravado, bunkum, buncombe, jactitation, jactancy, bounce, venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics, Chauvinism, exaggeration, vanity, vox et praeterea nihil, much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen, exultation, gloriation, glorification, flourish of trumpets, triumph, boaster, braggart, braggadocio, Gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant, blower, bluffer, Foxy Quiller, blusterer, charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter, puppy, boasting, magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant, vainglorious, highfalutin, highfaluting, spread- eagle, elate, elated, jubilant, triumphant, exultant, in high feather, flushed, flushed with victory, cock-a-hoop, on stilts, vaunted, vauntingly, let the galled jade wince, facta non verba.Agitation
N agitation, stir, tremor, shake, ripple, jog, jolt, jar, jerk, shock, succussion, trepidation, quiver, quaver, dance, jactitation, quassation, shuffling, twitter, flicker, flutter, turbulence, perturbation, commotion, turmoil, disquiet, tumult, tumultuation, hubbub, rout, bustle, fuss, racket, subsultus, staggers, megrims, epilepsy, fits, carphology, chorea, floccillation, the jerks, St. Vitus's dance, tilmus, spasm, throe, throb, palpitation, convulsion, disturbance, chaos, restlessness, ferment, fermentation, ebullition, effervescence, hurly-burly, cahotage, tempest, storm, ground swell, heavy sea, whirlpool, vortex, whirlwind, shaking, agitated tremulous, desultory, subsultory, saltatoric, quasative, shambling, giddy-paced, saltatory, convulsive, unquiet, restless, all of a twitter, by fits and starts, subsultorily, per saltum, hop skip and jump, in convulsions, in fits, tempete dans un verre d'eau.
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