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miscreation

mɪskriˈeɪʃən
WordNet
  1. (n) miscreation
    something abnormal or anomalous
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) miscreation
    A faulty or unnatural making or creation.
Usage in literature

God Himself is described as exacting an atonement for His own miscreations; as, for instance, His diminishing the size of the moon. "Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala" by Various

THAT FAIRE-FORGED SPRIGHT, fair but miscreated spirit (I, xiv). "Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I" by Edmund Spenser

Thou, miscreative hell, Let loose calamity! "Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete" by Various

In the midst of such a throng of miscreated beings Leo seemed of angelic loveliness and purity. "Victor Ollnee's Discipline" by Hamlin Garland

An appropriate instrument was at hand in the Pindaric ode, the miscreation of a true poet, Cowley. "The Age of Dryden" by Richard Garnett

Usage in poetry
"Black swarming in medley miscreate,
In masses lumped hideously,
Wallowed the conger, the thorny skate,
The lobster's grisly deformity;
And bared its teeth with cruel sheen a
Terrible shark, the sea's hyena.