visiting

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ/
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Verb

visiting

  1. present participle of visit

Noun

visiting (plural visitings)

  1. The act of someone or something that visits.
    • Shakespeare, Macbeth
      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 []
    • 2003, Joseph A. Conforti, Imagining New England (page 107)
      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."
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