jactance
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]jactance (uncountable)
- (formal) Boasting; bragging; showing off.
- Synonym: jactation
Usage notes
[edit]- Often italicized as a foreign loan.
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin iactantia. Cognate with Spanish jactancia and Catalan jactància.
Noun
[edit]jactance f (plural jactances)
- boastfulness, bragging
- Synonym: vantardise
- 1844, Honoré de Balzac, Modeste Mignon:
- Ces défauts, assez légers dans les salons dorés du faubourg Saint-Germain, […] où cette espèce de jactance, d’apprêt, de tension, si vous voulez, a pour cadre un luxe excessif, des toilettes somptueuses.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]jactance f (plural jactances)
References
[edit]- “jactance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
[edit]- “jactance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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