visiting
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Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ/
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ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ
Noun
The act of someone or something that visits.
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- Examples
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Come, you spirits […] make thick my blood, / Stop up th' access and passage to remorse / That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose[…]
More examples (2)
I marvel at none of the wild beliefs in the Hartz mountains: fire is the element of the spiritual, and who can tell what strange visitings there may be during the midnight hours that the charcoal-burner sits watching the fitful and subtle mystery of flame?
Instead, he found the Sabbath in North Carolina "generally disregarded, or distinguished by the convivial visitings of the white inhabitants, and the noisy diversions of the negroes."
Noun
the activity of making visits
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- Examples
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the purpose was to promote homes, clubs, visiting, and other services
Word forms
visitings