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Webster 1913 Edition

Visiting

Vis′it-ing

,
Adj.
&
vb.
Noun.
from
Visit
.
Visiting ant
.
(Zool.)
See
Driver ant
, under
Driver
.
–
Visiting book
,
a book in which a record of visits received, made, and to be made, is kept.
Thackeray.
–
Visiting card
.
See under
Card
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Visiting

VIS'ITING

,
ppr.
1.
Going or coming to see; attending on, as a physician; inspecting officially; afflicting; showing mercy to.
2.
a. Authorized to visit and inspect; as a visiting committee.

VIS'ITING

,
Noun.
The act of going to see or of attending; visitation.

Definition 2024

visiting

visiting

English

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."

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ/

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