visitation

plural visitations

1. countableuncountableThe 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, […]

   1995, United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center, Draft, Frontcountry Development Concept Plan, page I

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

   2007, Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases ...

2. countableuncountableAn official visit to inspect or examine something.
3. countableuncountableAn encounter with aliens or supernatural beings such as ghosts.
4. countableuncountableAn 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.

   1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 81

5. countableuncountablelawThe right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
6. countableuncountableA punishment or blessing ordained by God.
7. countableuncountablebiologyAn unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.

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.