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ingathering

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[in-gath-er-ing] / ˈɪnˌgæð ər ɪŋ /

noun

  1. a gathering in, especially of farm products; harvest.

  2. a gathering together, as of persons; assembly.


Etymology

Origin of ingathering

First recorded in 1525–35; in- 1 + gathering

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

In a sense Whitman's entire life was an act of ingathering and what Kaplan calls "a demonstration of the regenerative power of personality, change and language."

From Time Magazine Archive

We are experiencing on a massively universal scale a convulsive ingathering of people in their numberless grouping of kinds�tribal, racial, linguistic, religious, national.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Gentiles gladly heard him and there was a great ingathering into the church.

From Bible Studies in the Life of Paul Historical and Constructive by Sell, Henry T. (Henry Thorne)

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