Other forms: visitations
A visitation is an official visit, or an appearance believed to be supernatural. A bishop's visitation, a visitation of angels, visitation rights.
In American family law it is the term for a parent's arranged time with a child, which Britain calls contact. The supernatural sense is the one everybody knows, and the church one is the oldest.
1nounvisitationAn official visit, or an appearance believed to be supernatural.
“The villagers claimed the strange light in the sky was a visitation from an angel.”
visitation is a visit.
Latin visitatio comes from visitare, to go to see, from videre, to see.
Latin
vīsitātiō
Old French
visitacion
Anglo-Norman
visitacioun
English, today
visitation
From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin vīsitātiō. by surface analysis, visit + -ation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA