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Meaning of 'visitation' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Visitation [ n.]
- The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination.
- Specifically: The act of a superior or superintending officer who, in the discharge of his office, visits a corporation, college, etc., to examine into the manner in which it is conducted, and see that its laws and regulations are duly observed and executed; as, the visitation of a diocese by a bishop.
- The object of a visit.
- The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually coupled with the right of search (see under Search), visitation being used for the purpose of search.
- Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment.
- A festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated on the second of July.

Meaning of 'visitation' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . visitation [ n]
Meaning (1):
- any disaster or catastrophe
Example in sentence:
  • a visitation of the plague
Meaning (2):
- an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
Example in sentence:
  • a visitation of the plague;
  • his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him;
  • life is full of tribulations
Meaning (3):
- an official visit for inspection or supervision
Example in sentence:
  • the commissioner made visitations to all the precinct stations;
  • the recent visitation of the bishop to his diocese

Nearby Words:

vis vis-a-vis visa visaed visage visaged visaing visard viscacha viscera

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