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Noun: visitation  ,vi-zi'tey-shun
  1. An official visit for inspection or supervision
    "the commissioner made visitations to all the precinct stations"; "the recent visitation of the bishop to his diocese"
     
  2. Any disaster or catastrophe
    "a visitation of the plague"
     
  3. A supernatural encounter or divine appearance
    "She claimed to have experienced a divine visitation"
     
  4. [informal] A visit, especially one that is lengthy or unwanted
    "We endured another visitation from my aunt"

Derived forms: visitations

Type of: calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, visit

Encyclopedia: Visitation