visitation
/ˌvɪzɪˈteɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.
Countable; Uncountable
name
The 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.
Example Sentences
- "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 […]"
- "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."
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin vīsitātiō. By surface analysis, visit + -ation.
Usage
Inflected Forms
visitations (plural)
the Visitation (canonical)