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

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

I get angry with myself that I am lazy, useless, and inert, while kings are labouring for the gain of the heavenly country by the ingathering of souls.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)