foregathering

English

Alternative forms

• forgathering

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[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

foregathering

1. present participle and gerund of foregather