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jactations

jactations is the plural of jactation.

Meaning of jactation

Noun

jactation (countable and uncountable, plural jactations)

  1. A tossing or shaking of the body; physical agitation, especially while asleep or confined to bed by illness; jactitation.
  2. The action of throwing.
    • The projicient hath the stone in his hand, and with force and violence throws his arm, with which jactation the stone doth not move so much as the circumambient Air.1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
  3. Boasting; bragging; showing off.

Questions about jactations

What is jactations the plural of?
Jactations is the plural of jactation.

Words near jactations in the dictionary

  1. Jacquot
  2. Jacquots
  3. jactance
  4. jactancy
  5. jactation
  6. jactations
  7. jactitate
  8. jactitated
  9. jactitates
  10. jactitating
  11. jactitation

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