different between jactitation vs jactation

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin jactitio, from iactit? (“throw, fling; boast, brag; utter, mention”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?ækt??te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

jactitation (countable and uncountable, plural jactitations)

1. Bragging or boasting, especially in a false manner to another's detriment.
2. A false pretense of being married to somebody.
3. (medicine) Extreme restlessness; tossing and turning in bed.

Translations

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.