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
"We'll trade a horseback ride any time for the opportunity to teach the Bible," says Bus Minister Jim Vineyard, who marshals the weekly ingathering.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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I mind weel my father and our minister ay used to pray for the ingathering of the Jews.
From Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
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