Visitation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VISITATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a visit
• the appearance of a divine or supernatural being
• an official visit of inspection, especially one by a bishop to a church in his diocese.
• a pastoral or charitable visit, especially to the sick or poor
• an unwelcome or unduly protracted social visit
• a gathering with the family of a deceased person before the funeral
• a disaster or difficulty regarded as a divine punishment
• the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth related in Luke 1:39–56.
• the festival commemorating the Visitation of the Virgin Mary, on 31 May (formerly 2 July).
• The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination.
• Specifically: The act of a superior or superintending officer who, in the discharge of his office, visits a corporation, college, etc., to examine into the manner in which it is conducted, and see that its laws and regulations are duly observed and executed; as, the visitation of a diocese by a bishop.
• The object of a visit.
• The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually coupled with the right of search (see under Search), visitation being used for the purpose of search.
• Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment.
• A festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated on the second of July.
• an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
• any disaster or catastrophe
• an official visit for inspection or supervision
• the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth related in Luke 1:39–56.
• a divorced person's right to spend time with their children in the custody of a former spouse
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an instance of visiting; as an official visit (as for inspection); 2wake 3; temporary custody of a child granted to a noncustodial parent

Words related to VISITATION

visitations14

Words that contain VISITATION

visitations14 revisitation15 visitational15 revisitations16 intervisitation18 intervisitations19

How to use VISITATION in a sentence

• I fear your visitation finds me singularly unprepared to do the duties of a host.
• It was no doubt the result of a diseased frame, though it was universally held to be a divine visitation.
• Every convent, every castle, every city of his vast dominions beheld in him the visitation of the Almighty.
• Then they made a complete visitation of the whole kingdom.
• Many hundreds of persons remained upon the river in this way during the whole continuance of the visitation.
• When this terrible visitation was at its height Yamba made a curious suggestion to me.
• A gentle mother next received thy visitation, falling a prey to thy relentless hand.
• When a visitation of the church was made in the year 1251, there were only forty houses in the parish.
• The onslaught was so sudden, so powerless to avert, that it seemed like a visitation of wrath from above.
• He may warn them, one by one, in friendly converse, or by a parochial visitation.
• Of the miseries that attend a visitation of epidemic fever, few can form a conception.
• The year of the breach of the treaty of Calais was also marked by the third great visitation of the Black Death, and the death of Queen Philippa.
• I began, in fulfilment of the aforesaid, the visitation on the twenty-fourth of the past month of June, at a ministry in charge of the Order of St.
• But for the main object of his visitation he had little but sympathy.
• To these the care and visitation of the House, and likewise of the house at Diepenvene that lieth without Deventer, were afterward committed by the General Chapter.
• But it brought the final visitation of poverty upon Vesta.
• Less frequently inflammation of the ear or the eye may be left behind as a mark of a visitation of this common disease.
• In 1846 it attacked the Faroe Islands, and the record of that visitation is both remarkable and instructive.
• But so may a man at any time by the visitation of God, by the stroke which, from the void air, falleth suddenly upon the heart of man.
• Another right connected with the right of visitation is, that of demanding a sight of the Warrant of Constitution.
• If visit or visitation be not accompanied by search, it will be in most cases merely idle.
• It was when alone that I saw, in its reality and naked wretchedness, the visitation that I, more than any other, was doomed to suffer.
• Then, the first pastoral visitation! With me it was at the house of a man suffering from dropsy in the leg.
• Thus the earth powers claimed a final human sacrifice before their dread visitation ended.
• When Johanna, for instance, describes the visitation by the Virgin, and declares her sacred mission, we listen unmoved.
• He does not mind if the visitation plays extreme havoc among his stock so long as he is not left in the lurch.
• For instance, they regard locusts as a direct visitation from the Almighty.

Similar words containing VISITA without suffix tion

visitant11 visitable14 visitants12 visitator12 revisitant13 visitative16 visitators13 revisitants14 unvisitable16 visitations14 revisitation15 visitational15 visitatorial15 revisitations16 intervisitation18 intervisitations19

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