visitation
nounattested in dialogue
- //ˌvɪzɪˈteɪʃən//
The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
noun
- 1
The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
Existing visitor facilities for both frontcountry areas experience crowding during the summer season, when the park receives most of its visitation, […]
Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]
- 2
An official visit to inspect or examine something.
- 3
An encounter with aliens or supernatural beings such as ghosts.
- 4
An affliction or disaster attributed to destiny, or to God.
But when the blow comes down in the fulness of expectation; when the bough is smitten while green, and the flower cut down in its spring; when the young and lovely perish, while the eyes, full of light, were fixed on the future,—then, indeed, is the visitation heavy to bear.
- 5
The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
- 6
A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
- 7
An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin vīsitātiō. By surface analysis, visit + -ation.
Forms
- plural
- visitations
visitation · The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
Visitation · The visit of the Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth; the…visited · That has received a visit or visits.visiting · The act of someone or something that visits.