different between bragging vs jactation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?a???/
• Hyphenation: brag?ging
• Rhymes: -æ???

Noun

bragging (plural braggings)

1. The act of one who brags.
   • 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

     […] there was a glint of amused contempt in his black eyes — contempt, as if he listened to the braggings of children.

Translations

Verb

bragging

1. present participle of brag

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

jactation (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.
   • 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)

     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.

3. Boasting; bragging; showing off.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “jactation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

References

• jactation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.