| 词组 | visitation |
| 释义 | visitation A few commentators are concerned that visitation should not be used interchangeably with visit. They would be reassured to see our citational evidence, which confirms that the two words, although basically synonymous, are used in distinct ways. Visit is, of course, the more general and widely applicable word. Visitation normally connotes a visit that is in some way out of the ordinary, as in having a formal or official nature or a supernatural dimension, or as in representing a kind of benefaction: • The Dalai Lama continued his unprecedented visitation of his followers and friends in England yesterday —Philip Howard, The Times (London), 24 Oct. 1973 • When the assessor arrives on his annual visitation — Jonathan Evan Maslow, Saturday Rev., 16 Sept. 1978 • The nun was as elated as if she had had a blessed visitation. It was a visitation. A glow suffused her heart —Harry Hervey, Barracoon, 1950 • ... the rare visitations of evening grosbeaks and bluebirds that make one feel, quite unjustifiably, like one of the chosen —Eleanor Perenyi, Green Thoughts, 1983 Visit would be possible in any of the above passages, but it lacks the connotations that make the longer word especially apt there. Visitation also has several distinct uses for which visit is not possible: • The town suffered severely from a visitation of the plague in the 17th century —The Encyclopedia Americana, 1943 • Spreading the use of the parks by having more visitation in spring and fall —Robert Cahn, Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 1968 • ... said she would help her own adopted children seek their biological parents when they reach the age of majority. But she objected to visitation rights before that time —Nadine Brozan, TV. Y. Times, 23 Jan. 1978 • Use of a room in the funeral home for a three-hour "visitation" costs about $370 —David Black, Harper's, September 1985 |
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