visitation

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

• IPA^(key): /ˌvɪzɪˈteɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

visitation (countable and uncountable, plural visitations)

1. 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 ...‎^[1]:

     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 supernatural beings such as ghosts or aliens.
4. 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.

5. (law) The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
6. A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
7. (ecology) An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.

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visitation f (plural visitations)

1. visitation (by a spirit)

• “visitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Latin vīsitātiō.

visitation oblique singular, f (oblique plural visitations, nominative singular visitation, nominative plural visitations)

1. visitation (act of visiting)
2. visitation (visit in order to inspect something)
3. visitation (supernatural encounter)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (visitation, supplement)
• visitation on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

visitation c

1. a visitation (official inspection)
2. an act of searching or frisking (someone)

• visitera

• visitation in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• visitation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)