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visitation

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noun/ˌvɪzɪˈteɪʃən/
  1. 1

    The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.countableuncountable

    • Existing visitor facilities for both frontcountry areas experience crowding during the summer season, when the park receives most of its visitation, […]
    • Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]
  2. 2

    An official visit to inspect or examine something.countableuncountable

  3. 3

    An encounter with aliens or supernatural beings such as ghosts.countableuncountable

  4. 4

    An affliction or disaster attributed to destiny, or to God.countableuncountable

    • 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, indee
  5. 5

    The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.countableuncountable

  6. 6

    A punishment or blessing ordained by God.countableuncountable

  7. 7

    An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.countableuncountable

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  1. 1

    The visit of the Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth; the commemoration of this on May 30th in Eastern Christianity or May 31st in Western Christianity.

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