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
On no single issue had Israelis been so fiercely unanimous as on the kibbutz galuyoth�the ingathering of the exiles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some speakers, in fact, made the nation sound like an immense ingathering of victims�terrorized senior citizens, forsaken minorities, Dickensian children�warmed by the party's Frank Capra version of America: Say, it's a wonderful life!
From Time Magazine Archive
In some of the more remote towns and villages of old England the custom lingers at the ingathering of the harvest.
From England in the Days of Old by Andrews, William
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