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

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

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

Squirrels, disturbed in the ingathering of their winter store, whisked up the boles of the great trees and scolded merrily from the forks of the high branches.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas