ingathering

[in-gath-er-ing] / ˈɪnˌgæð ər ɪŋ /

NOUN

harvest

Synonyms

STRONGEST

intake output result yield

STRONG

autumn by-product consequence cropping effect fall fruitage fruition garnering gathering harvesting produce reaping repercussion return season storing summer yielding

WEAK

harvest-time

Antonyms

STRONG

beginning cause commencement origin rise source start

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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

This was an ingathering of the tribe of blessings.

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

Of the illustrious thinkers and writers who for two generations had been actively scattering the seed of revolution in France, only Condorcet survived to behold the first bitter ingathering of the harvest.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet by Morley, John

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