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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



... organized in 1864. The special object of this society is "To reclaim women of every grade of society, who have fallen into habits of intemperance, and to prevent those from falling who are already in circumstances of danger, by visitation, watchful care, and by every means which can be devised; also to spread Temperance principles in every possible way." They have six or more Missionaries constantly at work, and a "General Superintendent, who acts as secretary, and, with the assistance ...
— Why and how: a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada • Addie Chisholm
... which thus brought her gracious visitation on him unaware, he hastened down with Tressilian, to whose eventful and interesting story he had ...
— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott
... he sent. Dupas to Lubeck. That city, which was poorer than Hamburg, suffered cruelly from the visitation of ...
— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
... young white women, all of them of unusual beauty? The conclusion was forced upon us, and with it the whole affair took on a complexion shudderingly sinister. It was not a mere panic of the people with which Bermuda now had to cope—not merely an unexplainable supernatural visitation, harmless enough, save that it was terrorizing. This was a menace. Something which had to ...
— The White Invaders • Raymond King Cummings
... the Old World by its military power, and shock them by its profligacy, whereof the Ostend Circular and the murders and forgeries of Kansas were but foretastes, until God in His righteous wrath should bring upon it some visitation like the present, and hurl it from its pinnacle in mercy ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various


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