Meaning & Definition of Visitation in English
English⟶
Visitation
/vɪzɪteʃən/
noun
1. An annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
- "His mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"
- "Life is full of tribulations"
- "A visitation of the plague"
synonym:
- trial,
- tribulation,
- visitation
2. Any disaster or catastrophe
- "A visitation of the plague"
synonym:
- visitation
3. 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"
synonym:
- visitation
Examples of using
On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck—and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but with intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death "by the visitation of God." What could the world do without juries?