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名詞

ingatherer (複数形 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.