foregathering
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]foregathering (plural foregatherings)
- A gathering together; an assembly.
- 1911, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 19, in The Story Girl:
- [I]n all our foregatherings she was careful to sit as far from Felicity as possible.
- 1916, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Return Journey”, in Twilight in Italy, London: Duckworth and Co. […], →OCLC, page 280:
- The very pure source […] is the snowy mountain-peak above. There, eternally, goes on the white foregathering of the crystals, out of the deathly cold of the heavens; […]
Verb
[edit]foregathering
- present participle and gerund of foregather