visitation [synonyms]
n. 1 staying, calling, visiting, sojourning, stopping (over): The father has visitation rights to his children on weekends.
2 affliction, ordeal, trial, punishment, disaster, catastrophe, cataclysm, calamity, tragedy, curse, scourge, blight, plague, pestilence: In the story, the tyrant succumbed finally to a visitation from the Almighty.
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