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

But the U.S., with its great polyglot ingathering, went brilliantly to the other extreme.

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

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