foregathering

noun

1. A gathering together; an assembly.

   “[I]n all our foregatherings she was careful to sit as far from Felicity as possible.”

   “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. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of foregather