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jactation

PRONUNCIATION:

(jak-TAY-shuhn) 

MEANING:

noun:
1. Boasting.
2. Involuntary bodily movements, such as tossing or twitching.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin jactation (tossing, boasting), from jactare (to throw, boast), frequentative of jacere (to throw). Earliest documented use: 1576. Also spelled as jactitation.

USAGE:

“The girls from the legal pools and the courthouse clerks stood out on the sidewalks [and] engaged in conceited jactation ... Most of the talk had little to do with actual facts.”
Patricia Hickman; Katrina’s Wings; Five Star; 2002.

“Amidst all the pain, and relentless jactation of his body, Laurel thought he could still hear the man.”
Emma Porter; The Fairy King; Xlibris; 2019.

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