Etymology
Origin of ingathering
Example Sentences
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Their ranks also included many former Democrats who shared a fervor for the anti-slavery cause and helped take some of the Whiggish, elitist edge off this ingathering of idealists and practical politicians.
From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2016
I’m having a small party to celebrate my ingathering of selves.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2013
The Zionist goal of "ingathering of the exiles" was for decades complemented by the exiles' dream of aliya �"going up" to the homeland.
From Time Magazine Archive
It arose from an ancient tribal aspiration, the hope of an ingathering after the long centuries of the Diaspora.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ceremonies which graced the ingathering of the harvest in bygone times have gradually disappeared, and at the present day only remnants of the old usages which once prevailed are still preserved.
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger
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