writation

Definitions

Writing, especially bad or pretentious writing.

archaic, uncountable

Examples

“[…] bad writation about the origin of society, and so forth […]”

“He wrote like⟳ a 'parnassian beau', cramming his essays with so many 'ornaments of study⟳' that his writing was more properly called 'writation'. This attack on Latinate diction, it should be noted, often took on an explicitly chauvinistic edge.”

“I know⟳ an eminent author that calls it a flux de plume, and another that says you have⟳ got a good clever talent at writation — your last⟳ pieces made a good deal⟳ of noise; and some of them ran thro' a second edition — […]”

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