mindmap root((敬仰恭喜赦<br>免允许拜访)) visit applies to any such coming, be it long or short, and whatever its nature or cause or purpose: spent the summer on a ~ to her English cousins. visitation applies chiefly to a formal or official visit made by one in authority often for a special purpose such as inspection or couselling: parochial ~s of a bishop. call applies to a brief, usually formal visit for social or professional purposes: the salesmen were expected to make at elast ten ~s each day. permission implies the power or authority to grant or refuse what is asked: refused strangers ~ to hunt on his land. leave may be preferred to permission in conventionally courteous phrases: by your ~, we'll be going now; or in official reference to permission to leave one's duties: he was given ~ to take care of emergency business. sufferance implies a neglect or refusal to forbid or interfere and therefore suggests a tacit permission that may be withdrawn: you are here on ~, and must watch quietly if you are to stay. pardon often ambiguous, denotes a release not from guilt but from a penalty imposed by an authority: received a ~ from the governor at the last moment. amnesty implies a pardon that is extended to a whole class or to a community: declared an ~ for all tax evaders. absolution in ecclesiastical and especially Roman Catholic use refers to a pardon extended for sins confessed and atoned for and implies that the eternal punishment for sin has been removed: asked for and was granted ~. congratulate the more common and more intimate term, implies that the one to whom pleasure is expressed is the recipient of good fortune: ~ the groom at his wedding. felicitate more formal in tone, implies that the recipient of the expression is regarded as happy or is wished happiness: ~d the parents of the new child. reverence stresses a recognition of the sacredness or inviolability of the person or thing which stimulates the emotion: demonstrated a lack of ~ for the truth. awe fundamentally implies a sense of being overwhelmed or overcome by great superiority or impressiveness and may suggest such varied reactions as standing mute, adoration, profound reverence, terror, or submissiveness: stood in ~ of his talent. fear in the sense here considered occurs chiefly in religious use and implies awed recognition of divine power and majesty: lived in ~ of the Lord.