English

Alternative forms

• forgathering

Noun

foregathering ‎(plural foregatherings)

1. A gathering together; an assembly.
   • 1911, Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Story Girl, ch. 19:

     [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