jactitation – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
jactitation
n.
false claim which harms another (Law); restlessness, tossing back and forth (Pathology); act of bragging, speaking of oneself in superlatives
Jactitation
Jactitation, in
common law jurisdictions, refers to the maliciously boasting or giving out by one party that he or she is
married to the other. In addition, this term may refer to acts such as
slander of title or other similar misrepresentations of the ownership of physical or intellectual property.
jactitation
Noun
1. speaking of yourself in superlatives
(synonym) boast, boasting, self-praise
(hypernym) speech act
(hyponym) brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting, gasconade
2. (law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law)
(hypernym) lie, prevarication
(classification) law, jurisprudence
3. (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness
(synonym) jactation
(hypernym) restlessness, uneasiness
(derivation) convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate
(classification) pathology
jactitation
nf.
jactitation, false claim which injures another (Law); restlessness, tossing back and forth (Pathology)
Jactitation
(n.)
Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the prejudice of another's right; false claim.
(n.)
A frequent tossing or moving of the body; restlessness, as in delirium.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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