ingatherer

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English

Etymology

From ingather +‎ -er.

Noun

ingatherer (plural ingatherers)

  1. Someone or something that ingathers.
    • 1871, The Quiver, page 23:
      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.
    • 1981, Lionel David Barnett, The Brahma Knowledge, →ISBN, page 19:
      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.
    • 2013, David Newman, Boundaries, Territory and Postmodernity, →ISBN, page 185:
      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.