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ingathering

American  
[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

But the U.S., with its great polyglot ingathering, went brilliantly to the other extreme.

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

It stands also for the ingathering of the full harvest.

From Studies in Zechariah by Gaebelein, Arno C.