ingatherer
nounEtymology From ingather + -er.
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Someone or something that ingathers.
- I think that Jesus is a gatherer in of human misery. It was to be such an ingatherer that he came on earth — that was his one object; to fit himself for that he became man at all, and lived, and died.1871, The Quiver, page 23:
- The Wind in sooth is an ingatherer. When fire goes out, it sinks into the Wind. When the sun goes down, it sinks into the Wind.1981, Lionel David Barnett, The Brahma Knowledge, →ISBN, page 19:
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- Implicit in the notion of Israel as being the 'ingatherer of the exiles' is the idea that there is a larger political community beyond its borders.2013, David Newman, Boundaries, Territory and Postmodernity, →ISBN, page 185: