inkshedn.
/ˈɪŋkʃɛd/ humorous.
The shedding or spilling of ink; consumption or waste of ink in writing.
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society > communication > writing > [noun]
writingeOE
penning1548
composition1553
characterizing1591
penship1622
scription1627
exaration1631
inkshed1672
scrivening1680
quill-driving1756
pen-and-inkage1894
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd in Wks. (1776) II. 58 To spare mine own pains, and prevent ink-shed [etc.].
1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin iii. iii. 94 But to avoid more Ink-shed in these Tales of Blood-shed, let's fall on some that are of a Jocunder Humour.
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. ii. 16 Terrible battles, 'yclept logomachies, have they occasioned and perpetuated with so much gall and ink-shed.
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iii. 17 With no blood-shed..but with immense beershed and inkshed.
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