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▪ I. ingathering, vbl. n.|ˈɪnˌgæðərɪŋ| Also 6 yngaderynge. [f. in adv. 11 c + gathering vbl. n.: cf. ingather v.] The action of gathering in or collecting (esp. the harvest); a gathering in, collection. Also fig.; applied spec. to the congregating of the Jews in Israel. Feast of Ingathering = Feast of Tabernacles.
1535Coverdale Exod. xxxiv. 22 The feast of yngaderynge [1551 ingatherynge] at y⊇ yeares ende. a1555Ridley Let. in Bradford's Wks. (Parker Soc.) II. 400 Make some ingatherings amongst your neighbours for the relief of them. 1668R. Steele Husbandm. Calling vi. (1672) 153 The ingathering of his corn. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 92 The ingathering of their hay and corns, [was] executed with a sledge. 1861Illustr. Times 5 Oct. 222 The great ingathering of the hops is completed. 1896J. F. Youngson Punjab Mission xxvii. 257 It resulted in the ingathering of thousands. 1952S. Spender Learning Laughter iii. 36 But to-day there is another kind of paradox... This might be called the paradox of the Ingathering. 1964Economist 16 May 703/1 The other chief fact of Israel, politically as well as economically, is the determination to make the in-gathering of Jews..viable and safe. 1971Listener 14 Jan. 36/3 When Israel became a state on 15 May 1948 the first principle written into its proclamation of independence affirmed that ‘the state of Israel will be open to Jewish immigration and the in-gathering of the exiles’. 1973Guardian 12 Mar. 10/3 Young Israelis..feel no mission to the Jews of the Diaspora. The ingathering of the exiles is a remote slogan. ▪ II. ˈinˌgathering, ppl. a. [f. in adv. 11 a + gathering ppl. a.] Gathering in, gathering together.
1887Advance 24 Mar. (Cent.), The ingathering streams are to branch off..into as many channels to empty the river as had united to fill it. |