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

It arose from an ancient tribal aspiration, the hope of an ingathering after the long centuries of the Diaspora.

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

It darkened all the summer days, and dulled all the usual mirth-making of the ingathering feasts.

From A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston