foregathering

English

Alternative forms

Noun

foregathering (plural foregatherings)

  1. 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. H. Lawrence, “The Return Journey”, in Twilight in Italy:
      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

foregathering

  1. present participle of foregather
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