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Visitation   /vˌɪzətˈeɪʃən/  /vˌɪzɪtˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Visitation

noun
1.
An annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event.  Synonyms: trial, tribulation.  "Life is full of tribulations" , "A visitation of the plague"
2.
Any disaster or catastrophe.
3.
An official visit for inspection or supervision.  "The recent visitation of the bishop to his diocese"



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"Visitation" Quotes from Famous Books



... gully by a vault. Ten minutes later he was staring at his mirrored reflection in his own room, convinced that, if he had not already killed her, the woman would be dead from exposure before morning. The cat had disappeared, and all traces of the night's visitation had ...
— From the Valley of the Missing • Grace Miller White

... Protestant faith, and that in 1843 she took the veil. We may wonder however, whether tardy remorse for her deceit towards the dead man, who had treated her with kindness, had not its influence in causing this sudden religious enthusiasm, and whether the Sister in the Convent of the Visitation in Paris gave herself extra penance ...
— Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings • Mary F. Sandars

... spinal injury irremediable in the nature of it. Had it been so—now speak for me, for what you hope I am, and say how that should affect or neutralize what you were, what I wished to associate with myself in you? But as you now are:—then if I had married you seven years ago, and this visitation came now first, I should be 'fulfilling a pious duty,' I suppose, in enduring what could not be amended—a pattern to good people in not running away ... for where were now the use and the ...
— The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 • Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett

... Bodfari. There was a service used for a sick woman, not canonically, but such as I have heard, I think, formerly at Lichfield, taken out of the visitation. ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 5 • Boswell

... smiled, a light was on her face, A clear, cool kindliness, a lunar beam Of peaceful radiance, silvering o'er the stream Of human thought with unabiding glory; Not quite a waking truth, not quite a dream, A visitation, bright ...
— Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn • Lafcadio Hearn


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