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

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 a sense Whitman's entire life was an act of ingathering and what Kaplan calls "a demonstration of the regenerative power of personality, change and language."

From Time Magazine Archive

The ceremonies which graced the ingathering of the harvest in bygone times have gradually disappeared, and at the present day only remnants of the old usages which once prevailed are still preserved.

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger