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1. An annoying, frustrating or catastrophic event
   "a visitation of the plague";
   - trial, tribulation
    
2. Any disaster or catastrophe
   "a visitation of the plague"
    
3. An official visit for inspection or supervision
   "the commissioner made visitations to all the precinct stations"; "the recent visitation of the bishop to his diocese"

Derived forms: visitations

Type of: affliction, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, visit

Encyclopedia: Visitation, Canonical