Etymology
Origin of ingathering
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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
It arose from an ancient tribal aspiration, the hope of an ingathering after the long centuries of the Diaspora.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of the illustrious thinkers and writers who for two generations had been actively scattering the seed of revolution in France, only Condorcet survived to behold the first bitter ingathering of the harvest.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet by John Morley
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