jactitation
9.9
Falsely claiming to be married to someone
- noun
- /ˌdʒæk.tɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
- Archaic
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jactitación
- The court dismissed the case, finding no evidence of jactitation in his unfounded assertions of marriage.
Examples
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In legal history, jactitation could lead to serious consequences for those falsely boasting of marriage.
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His claims of jactitation about being married to a celebrity drew the ire of the tabloids.
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Jactitation, a specious or false premise.
Antonyms
How Boastful
Surface Forms
jactitation singular
jactitations plural
Morphology
jactitation = jactitate (opaque) = jactit + ation
Although the sense is historically related to 'boast,' the stem is a learned Latinism rather than a productive English base.
Etymology
Jactitation comes from the Latin jactare 'to toss', which was often used as 'to throw words around' or 'to boast', and so it was used in old law for someone who falsely claimed to be married. That's why the legal sense of jactitation is a false or boastful claim about marriage.