miscreationn.

1830 S. L. Fairfield Abaddon & Other Poems 23 Debased their nature in the dust and sealed Lovebonds with the accursed race of Cain. Hence miscreations came.

1835 New Eng. Mag. Aug. 130 The vilest English re-publications, and the most stupid miscreations of American stupidity, are puffed and forced upon the American people.

1852 G. Gilfillan Martyrs, Heroes, & Bards Sc. Covenant vii. 132 One of the vast creatures of the bygone chaos—the magnificent miscreations of Geology, interesting..as a fossil remain.

1900 W. V. Moody Masque of Judgment ii. 51 Upon what stricken plain have I been flung, Whose miscreations blot with leaves like hands The far horizon light?

1927 Mind 36 262 Organic evolution teems with such miscreations.

1994 M. Williamson Illuminata (new ed.) i. i. 16 It is trying to shake off the toxins of our miscreations, physical and emotional.

1871 C. Kingsley in Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 4 378 Great dirty warrens of houses,..peopled with savages and imps of our own miscreation.

1880 A. C. Swinburne Stud. in Song 202 Formless form, incarnate miscreation.

1934 C. A. Smith in Weird Tales Oct. 433/2 Here, it seemed, was the ultimate source of all miscreation and abomination.

1971 G. Urang Shadows of Heaven ii. 64 Evil..is felt not as imperfection, not even as revolt, but as miscreation, the bringing to pass of what cannot—and must not—be, but is.

1998 Isis 89 138/2 (title) Imagining monsters: Miscreations of the self in eighteenth-century England.