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Visitation
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VISITA'TION, n. L. visito.
1. The act of visiting.
Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.
2. Object of visit.
My early visitation and my last. Unusual.
3. In law, the act of a superior or superintending officer, who visits a corporation, college, church or other house, to examine into the manner in which it is conducted, and see that its laws and regulations are duly observed and executed. In England, the visitation of the diocese belongs to the bishop parochial visitation belongs peculiarly to the archdeacons.
4. In Scripture, and in a religious sense, the sending of afflictions and distresses on men to punish them for their sins, or to prove them. Hence afflictions, calamities and judgments are called visitations.
What will ye do in the day of visitation? Isaiah 10 .
5. Communication of divine love exhibition of divine goodness and mercy.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Visitation'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​v/visitation.html.
Entry for 'Visitation'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​v/visitation.html.