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jactitation
 
Noun jactitation has 3 senses
  1. boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation - speaking of yourself in superlatives
    --1 is a kind of speech act
    --1 has particulars:
     brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting, gasconade; braggadocio, bluster, rodomontade, rhodomontade; vaunt; self-assertion
  2. jactitation - (law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law)
    --2 is a kind of     lie, prevarication
  3. jactitation, jactation - (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness
    --3 is a kind of restlessness, uneasiness
    Derived form: verb jactitate1
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