Foregathering

Alternative forms

• forgathering

Full definition of foregathering

Noun

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

1. Present participle of foregather