writation

English

Etymology

From write +‎ -ation.

Noun

writation (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Writing, especially bad or pretentious writing.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Jeremy Bentham to this entry?)
    […] bad writation about the origin of society, and so forth […]
    • 2005, H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson, The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, volume 4, page 446:
      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.
    • 2024, James G. Basker, The Critical Review or Annals of Literature, 1756-1763, volume 9, page 152:
      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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