visitation

Definition

The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin vīsitātiō. By surface analysis, visit + -ation.

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."