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UK
/dʒˌæktɪtˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
- speaking of yourself in superlatives
- (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness
- (law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law)
How To Use jactitation In A Sentence
- But unmixed hydromel, rather than the diluted, produces frothy evacuations, such as are unseasonably and intensely bilious, and too hot; but such an evacuation occasions other great mischiefs, for it neither extinguishes the heat in the hypochondria, but rouses it, induces inquietude, and jactitation of the limbs, and ulcerates the intestines and anus. On Regimen In Acute Diseases