Meaning of writation | Babel Free

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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