visitation

noun

1 the bishop conducted a busy schedule of pastoral visitations:

official visit, visit, inspection, tour of inspection, survey, review, scrutiny, examination.

2 the blinding light had signified a visitation from God:

apparition, appearance, manifestation, materialization, emergence, vision.

3 Jehovah was considered as punishing sinners by providential visitations:

affliction, scourge, bane, curse, ordeal, plague, pestilence, blight, disaster, tragedy, calamity, catastrophe, cataclysm;

punishment, retribution, penalty, vengeance.

▷antonyms blessing.

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