visitation
See also: Visitation
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin vīsitātiō. By surface analysis, visit + -ation.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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 ...[1]:
- 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 supernatural beings such as ghosts or aliens.
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]act of visiting
official visit
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encounter with supernatural beings
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right to see one's child
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punishment or blessing ordained by God
Anagrams
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[edit]Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]visitation f (plural visitations)
- visitation (by a spirit)
Further reading
[edit]- “visitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin vīsitātiō.
Noun
[edit]visitation oblique singular, f (oblique plural visitations, nominative singular visitation, nominative plural visitations)
- visitation (act of visiting)
- visitation (visit in order to inspect something)
- visitation (supernatural encounter)
References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (visitation, supplement)
- visitation on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]visitation c
- a visitation (official inspection)
- an act of searching or frisking (someone)
Declension
[edit]Declension of visitation
Related terms
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