Obs. rare. [Irreg. f. as prec. + -ATION.] Poor or insipid writing.
1778. Miss Carter, Lett. to Mrs. Montagu (1817), III. 95. What writing, as somebody used to say, what writation it all is!
1787. Bentham, Wks. (1843), X. 174. Nine-tenths of it is bad writation about the origin of society.
