visitations

Noun

visitation (countable and uncountable, plural visitations)

1. The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
   • Existing visitor facilities for both frontcountry areas experience crowding during the summer season, when the park receives most of its visitation, […]1995, United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center, Draft, Frontcountry Development Concept Plan, page I
2. An official visit to inspect or examine something.
3. An encounter with aliens or supernatural beings such as ghosts.
4. An affliction or disaster attributed to destiny, or to God.
   • 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.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 81
5. The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
6. A punishment or blessing ordained by God.

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