visitation
noun/ˌvɪzɪˈteɪʃən/
Etymology From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin vīsitātiō. By surface analysis, visit + -ation.
7 senses
- 1The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
- 2An official visit to inspect or examine something.
- 3An encounter with aliens or supernatural beings such as ghosts.
- 4An affliction or disaster attributed to destiny, or to God.
- 5The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a…
- 6A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
- 7An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of…
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, […]1995, United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center, Draft, Frontcountry Development Concept Plan, page I:
- Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]2007, Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases ...:
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.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 81:
5
Law The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
6
A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
- Derived terms
- conjugal visitation, Nun of the Visitation