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Definition: Jactitation |
JactitationNoun1. Speaking of yourself in superlatives. 2. A false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law). 3. (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Jactitation \Jac"ti*ta"tion\, noun. [Latin expression jactitare to utter in public, from jactare. See Jactancy.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: JactitationSynonyms: boast (n), boasting (n), jactation (n), self-praise (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agitation | Noun: agitation, stir, tremor, shake, ripple, jog, jolt, jar, jerk, shock, succussion, trepidation, quiver, quaver, dance; jactitation, quassation; shuffling c. Verb: twitter, flicker, flutter. |
Boasting | Noun: boasting; Verb: 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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Jactitation |
| Non-English Usage: "Jactitation" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (jactitation). |
Expression using "jactitation": Jactitation of marriage. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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jactitation | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "jactitation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mburrje (arrogance, bluster, boast, bounce, brag, braggery, bravado, fanfaronade, gasconade, hokum, jactation, puff, rodomontade, splurge, swank, talk big, vainglory, vaunt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تبجح (bluster, blustery, boast, boastfulness, brag, bravado, crow, gasconade, plume, rant, shoot a line, swagger, swank, swell, talk big, vaporize, vaunt), ثرثرة (babble, blab, blabber, boastfulness, breeze, cackle, chat, chatter, clatter, gab, gabble, garrulity, gas, gibberish, jabber, logorrhea, loquacity, patter, prate, prattle, rattle, talkativeness, tattler, tittle tattle, twaddle, yap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | спазми (clonus), конвулсии (jactation), гърчене (convulsion, squirm, writhe), мятане (cast, fling, flounce, hurl, jactation, projection, shy, throw, toss), лъжливо твърдение. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neklid (alarm, anxiety, discomfort, disquiet, ferment, inquietude, jactation, malaise, uneasiness, unrest, worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | jactitation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hetvenkedés (bluster, bounce, roistering, swashbuckling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | actitationjay jactação (jactation), inquietação (anxiety, care, colorwash, colourwash, concern, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, fidget, fret, inquietude, misgiving, preoccupation, quicksilver, uneasiness, unrest, worry), convulsão (spasm, twitch). (various references) хвастовство (big talk, blague, blowing, boast, brag, braggery, bragging, bravado, gasconade, jactation, ostentation, rodomontade, swank, vaunt). (various references) trzanje tela, hvalisanje (bluster, boasting, brag, braggadocio, braggery, bragging, fanfaronade, gasconade, jactation, ostentation, vaunt). (various references) impostura (fake, imposture, sham). (various references) yalan iddia, sakin durmama, boş iddia. (various references) судорожне сіпання (jactation, jerk), хвастощі (blow, blowing, boast, boasting, bounce, brag, braggery, bravadoes, display, flash, gasconade, jactation, ostent, ostentation, rodomontade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "jactitation": jactitations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "jactitation" (pronounced 'Jac"ti*ta"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-i-j-n-o-t-t-t" | |
-3 letters: citation. | |
-4 letters: actinia, attaint, taction, titania, titanic. | |
-5 letters: action, anatto, atonic, attain, cation, intact, octant, otitic, titian. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-i-j-n-o-t-t-t" | |
+1 letter: jactitations. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J a c t i t a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 0061 0063 0074 0069 0074 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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