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a visitation of [calamity]
此用法中的 of 后接具体灾祸，如瘟疫、饥荒等，表示灾难或灾祸降临。
The town suffered a visitation of cholera that year.
那一年，这个小镇遭受了一场霍乱之灾。
视察；巡视；正式访问
visitations — plural of visitation
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
视察；巡视；正式访问
an official visit for inspection or supervision
The town suffered a visitation of cholera that year.
那一年，这个小镇遭受了一场霍乱之灾。
访问的行为,或被访问的事例。
The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
对某物进行视察或检查的正式访问。
An official visit to inspect or examine something.
与外星人或幽灵等超自然生物的相遇。
An encounter with aliens or supernatural beings such as ghosts.
归因于命运或上帝的痛苦或灾难。
An affliction or disaster attributed to destiny, or to God.
The annual visitation by the safety officer took place last Tuesday.
安全官员的年度视察于上周二进行。
During the visitation, the principal showed the inspectors around the new building.
视察期间，校长带检查人员参观了新大楼。
A formal visitation is required before the bank can renew its license.
银行续领执照前必须接受一次正式视察。
此用法中的 of 后接具体灾祸，如瘟疫、饥荒等，表示灾难或灾祸降临。
The town suffered a visitation of cholera that year.
那一年，这个小镇遭受了一场霍乱之灾。
from 后接进行视察或访问的人或机构，强调来访者，常指正式的官方到访。
The office prepared for a visitation from the ministry officials.
办公室为部委官员的视察作了准备。
to 后接被访问的地点，语气较正式，多用于官方或公务访问。
The council's annual visitation to the orphanage was on Friday.
理事会对孤儿院的年度访问是在周五。
Not this
I had a visitation to my grandmother last weekend.
Use this
I had a visit to my grandmother last weekend.
visitation 指正式的视察、巡视，或灾难、鬼怪显现等特殊事件，不表示普通的社交探望；普通探望应用 visit。
Not this
The inspector visitationed the new factory yesterday.
Use this
The inspector visited the new factory yesterday.
visitation 是名词，不能直接加 -ed 当动词用；表示“视察、访问”的动作要用动词 visit。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
探望权
After the divorce, the mother was granted visitation rights.
离婚后，母亲获得了探望权。
探视安排
The family court approved their visitation schedule.
家事法庭批准了他们的探视安排。
探视时间
Visitation hours at the prison are from nine to eleven in the morning.
监狱的探视时间是上午九点到十一点。
正式视察；官方巡视
An official visitation of the hospital will take place next week.
下周将对这家医院进行正式视察。
Use visitations naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
把 visitation 拆成 visit（拜访）+ ation，记成“正式的拜访/视察”；再联想“灾祸来访”也是 visitation，一正一负两个意思都记住了。
语域：formal 常见场景：official inspections and supervisory visits、literary writing about disasters or catastrophes visitation 通常比较正式，多用于官方视察或正式访问；在文学或较庄重的语境中也可指灾祸、天罚。日常口语中更常说 visit。
All listed words except station end in -itation and rhyme with visitation (/-ɪˈteɪʃən/); station rhymes with the final /-ˈteɪʃən/ too. Watch out for lookalikes like visit /ˈvɪzɪt/, visitor /ˈvɪzɪtər/, and vision /ˈvɪʒən/, which do not rhyme.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.