Visitationname

• 1

  ChristianityThe 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.

visitationnoun/ˌvɪzɪˈteɪʃən/

• 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, […]
  • Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]
• 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.
• 5

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

• 6

  A punishment or blessing ordained by God.

• 7

  biologyecologynatural-sciencesAn unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.