jactitation of marriage

noun

A false assertion of being married to another person.

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nounjactitation of marriage (usually uncountable, plural jactitations of marriage)

plural jactitations of marriage

  1. UKhistoricaluncountableusuallylawA false assertion of being married to another person.

    Jactitation of marriage, or the boasting of the existence of a marriage , which never actually took place

    1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
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