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Word: jactation
Meaning: noun:
1. Boasting.
2. Involuntary bodily movements, such as tossing or twitching.
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.
See more usage examples of
jactation in Vocabulary.com’s
dictionary.
Thought: There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you
vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote.
-David Foster Wallace, novelist, essayist, and short story writer (21 Feb
1962-2008)
