visitation

Definition

  • noun: the act of visiting your children or the right to visit your children after you are divorced and while they are living with their other parent
  • noun: an instance of 'visiting'
  • synonyms: retribution, judgment, affliction

Examples

  • He has 'visitation rights' on the weekends.

  • a 'visitation' of the plague upon the city

  • the 'visitation' of a diocese by a bishop

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) ...were it not that I have bad dreams But no such matter. What make you from England? - To visit you, my lord, no other occasion - Were you not sent for? Is it a free visitation? Come, deal justly with me. Come, come. Nay, speak - What should we say, my lord? - Why, anything but to the purpose (..)
    2015 Hamlet
  • (..) If it will please you to show us so much kindness and goodwill... ...as to expend your time with us a while for the supply and profit of our hope... ...your visitation shall receive such thanks as fits a king's remembrance Both your majesties might, by the sovereign power you have of us... (..)
    2015 Hamlet