Usually means: Boastful behavior or arrogant pretension.
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  6. jactancy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  9. jactancy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. jactancy: FreeDictionary.org
  11. jactancy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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▸ noun:  (archaic) boasting; bragging

Similar:
vauntery, vaunt, bobance, gloriation, venditation, avaunt, bravade, bobaunce, ostentation, jaunt, more...

Opposite:
modesty, humility, unpretentiousness

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Similar:
vauntery, vaunt, bobance, gloriation, venditation, avaunt, bravade, bobaunce, ostentation, jaunt, more...

Opposite:
modesty, humility, unpretentiousness



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