frequentation

[ free-kwuhn-tey-shuhn ]

noun

1. the practice of frequenting; habit of visiting often.

Word History and Origins

Origin of frequentation¹

1400–50; late Middle English < Middle French fréquentation < Latin frequentātiōn- (stem of frequentātiō ). See frequent, -ation

Example Sentences

The frequentation of the port of Nieuport presents all the facilities which the merchants can require.

From Project Gutenberg

At this time the Franciscans were divided into three parties: there were the Zealots, or Spirituals, who called for a literal observance of St Francis’s Rule and Testament; they deplored all the developments since 1219, and protested against turning the institute into an order, the frequentation of the universities and the pursuit of learning; in a word, they wished to restore the life to what it had been during the first few years—the hermitages and the huts of twigs, and the care of the lepers and the nomadic preaching.

From Project Gutenberg

Round about him stretched the scene of his fondest frequentation as time had determined the habit; but it was as if every reason and every sentiment conducing to the connection had, under the shock of events, entered into solution with every other, so that the only thinkable approach to rest, that is to the recovery of an inward order, would be in restoring them each, or to as many as would serve the purpose, some individual dignity and some form.

From Project Gutenberg

Across the levels of the Lea valley, not then disfigured as they are now by factories and reservoir works and the squalor of sprawling suburbs, 22 rose the softly shagged undulations of Epping forest, a region which no amount of Cockney frequentation or prosaic vicinity can ever quite strip of its primitive romance.

From Project Gutenberg

Upon which occasion he then began to labour to win many to the Catholic faith, which he performed, and brought many to be Catholics of the better sort, and was a continual means of helping others to often frequentation of the Sacraments, to which end he kept and maintained Priests in several places.

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