Visitation Definition

vĭzĭ-tāshən
visitations
noun
visitations
The action or an instance of visiting or an instance of being visited.
Rules governing visitation at a prison.
American Heritage
The act or an instance of visiting; esp., an official visit to inspect or examine, as that made by a bishop to a church in his diocese.
Webster's New World
A visiting of reward or, esp., punishment, as by God.
Webster's New World
The legal right of a divorced or separated parent to visit a child.
Webster's New World
Any affliction or disaster thought of as an act of God.
Webster's New World
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(Roman Catholic Church) The visit of the Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth; the commemoration of this on 31st May.

Wiktionary
idiom
the Visitation
  • the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth: Luke 1:39-56
  • a church feast (May 31) commemorating this
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Visitation

Noun

Singular:
visitation
Plural:
visitations

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Visitation

  • the Visitation

Visitation Sentence Examples

  • The visitation was a failure.

  • This was the last and most tremendous visitation of the Assyrian scourge.

  • The preparations for the coronation of King James were interrupted by a severe visitation of the plague, which killed off as many as 30,578 persons, and it was not till March 25, 1604, that the king, the queen and Prince Henry passed triumphantly from the Tower to Westminster.

  • Peckham's main instrument was a minute system of "visitation," which he used with a frequency hitherto unknown.

  • Finally, many private charitable corporations (about 500 in 1905) report to the state board of charity, and town and city almshouses (205 in 1904) are subject to visitation.

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VVIVIS

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NONION

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