[ad. L. jactāntia: see prec. and -ANCY.] Boastfulness, vainglory; boasting.
1623. Cockeram, Iactancie, boasting.
1841. Fraser’s Mag., XXIII. 223. I speak not this in any jactancy or self-laudation.
1884. Sir S. St. John, Hayti, ii. 51. Rigaud had,… with his usual jactancy, marched on Port-au-Prince to expel the English, but was repulsed.
