jactitation
IPA: dʒˈæktʌtˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- Bragging or boasting, especially in a false manner to another's detriment.
- A false pretense of being married to somebody.
- (medicine) Extreme restlessness; tossing and turning in bed.
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Examples of "jactitation" in Sentences
- A sort of jactitation case, leading to pcriminal prosecution, was in the news just last week arthurQuote
- Essentially, all you needed was mutual jactitation and you were legally married in the eyes of the Commonwealth.
- “Gay marriage” is an extreme case of jactitation, one in which State officials and courts are sometimes complicit.
- Yes, Essentially, all you needed was mutual jactitation and you were legally married in the eyes of the Commonwealth.
- On the twentieth, wild delirium, On the twentieth, wild delirium, jactitation, passed no urine; small drinks were retained.
- We think it can be said in all fairness that the right of action for jactitation of marriage has never been recognized as warranted by the common law as it was introduced in and adopted by this country.
- It is urged by counsel for respondent that the allegation of nonmarriage as a ground for affirmative relief is warranted by the course of procedure at common law and is in the nature of a cross-bill setting forth the grounds of complaint in an action for jactitation of marriage.
- It has not only been a question, Captain Shandy, amongst the (Vide Swinburn on Testaments, Part 7. para 8.) best lawyers and civilians in this land, continued Kysarcius, ‘Whether the mother be of kin to her child,’ — but, after much dispassionate enquiry and jactitation of the arguments on all sides — it has been adjudged for the negative — namely,
- 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.
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