different between mischance vs visitation

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman meschance, Old French meschance, meschaunce.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m?s?t???ns/

Noun

mischance (countable and uncountable, plural mischances)

1. Bad luck, misfortune.
   • 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, V.2:

     But let this same be presently perform'd / Even when men's minds are wild, lest more mischance / On plots and errors happen.

2. A mishap, an unlucky circumstance.

Verb

mischance (third-person singular simple present mischances, present participle mischancing, simple past and past participle mischanced)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To undergo (a misfortune); to suffer (something unfortunate).

Anagrams

• mechanics

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin v?sit?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?z??te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

visitation (countable and uncountable, plural visitations)

1. The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
2. An official visit to inspect or examine something.
3. An encounter with supernatural beings such as ghosts or aliens.
4. (law) The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
5. A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
6. (ecology) An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.

Translations

Anagrams

• vitiations

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin v?sit?ti?.

Noun

visitation f (oblique plural visitations, nominative singular visitation, nominative plural visitations)

1. visitation (act of visiting)
2. visitation (visit in order to inspect something)
3. visitation (supernatural encounter)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (visitation, supplement)
• visitation on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub