Definition of Miscreations

1. miscreation [n] - See also: miscreation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Miscreations

miscounseling
miscounselled
miscounselling
miscounsels
miscount
miscounted
miscounting
miscounts
miscreant
miscreants
miscreate
miscreated
miscreates
miscreating
miscreation
miscreations (current term)
miscreative
miscreator
miscreators
miscreaunt
miscredent
miscredents
miscredulity
miscreed
miscreeds
miscrop
miscued
miscueing
miscues

Literary usage of Miscreations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1826)
"... the result of so unlicensed a dalliance but a spawn of monsters and miscreations ; of hideous and unreal existences ; of phantoms and will-o' the-wisps, ..."

2. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"Clearly, this is but one phase1 of the great movement 'back to nature ' from the miscreations of social man, which found its chief apostle in Rousseau. ..."

3. Pahlavi Texts by Edward William West (1892)
"About the damage and injury of the world owing to greed (dzo) and its fellow-miscreations, and him who is their supporter and abettor, the idolator ..."

4. Pahlavi Texts by Edward William West (1885)
"... miscreations are captured. 77. And pertaining to the springe and trap of the wild animal, who is mischievous owing to his own wilfulness, ..."

5. The American Magazine of Art by American Federation of Arts (1916)
"... tricks, bad eating, yelps, and all the miscreations of ugliness will become intolerable,' it must strive for one main result which will be at the same ..."

6. Miscellanies by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1886)
"In one only of his dramatic miscreations is there the dimmest glimpse of interest discoverable, even as regards the mere conduct of the story: and this play ..."

7. A Gallery of Literary Portraits by George Gilfillan (1845)
"These are miscreations, spasmodic beyond the worst of Michael Angelo's. How far inferior to that one inscription in Dante, " Who enters here leaves hope ..."

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