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
Joda became one of the hundreds of thousands who joined the "ingathering" at the home of his ancestors.
From Time Magazine Archive
Martin Luther King's dream was also a collective dream, and the March on Washington in 1963 was also an ingathering.
From Time Magazine Archive
As usual, they count upon effects without causes, upon an ingathering of the harvest with no preceding seedtime.
From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris
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