visitation (visitations plural )
1 n-count A visitation is an event in which God or another non-human being seems to appear to someone or contact them.
The young people have claimed almost daily visitations from the Virgin Mary.
2 n-count People sometimes refer humorously to a visit from someone, especially from someone in authority, as a visitation.
They had another visitation from Essex police.
3 n-uncount Visitation is the act of officially visiting someone.
FORMAL House-to-house visitation has been carried on, under the regulations of the General Board of Health...