jactitation of marriage
English
Noun
jactitation of marriage (usually uncountable, plural jactitations of marriage)
- (Britain, law) A giving out or boasting by a party that he or she is married to another, whereby a common reputation of their matrimony may ensue.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for jactitation of marriage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)