visitation

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visitation

From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin vīsitātiō. By surface analysis, visit +‎ -ation.

visitation (countable and uncountable, plural visitations)

The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
- 1995, United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center, Draft, Frontcountry Development Concept Plan, page I:
  Existing visitor facilities for both frontcountry areas experience crowding during the summer season, when the park receives most of its visitation, […]
- 2007, Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases ...‎:
  Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]
An official visit to inspect or examine something.
An encounter with aliens or supernatural beings such as ghosts.
An affliction or disaster attributed to destiny, or to God.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 81:
  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.
(law) The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
(ecology) An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.

act of visiting

official visit

Bulgarian: визита (bg) f (vizita)
Finnish: vierailu (fi)
Georgian: ვიზიტი (viziṭi)
Gothic: 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌷𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (niuhseins)
Greek: επίσκεψη (el) f (epískepsi)
Hungarian: hivatalos látogatás, szemle (hu), megtekintés (hu), vizsgálat (hu), (of a school) iskolalátogatás (hu)
Ottoman Turkish: زیارت (ziyâret)
Polish: wizytacja (pl) f
Swedish: visit (sv)

encounter with supernatural beings

right to see one's child

punishment or blessing ordained by God

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