Kempis

[ kem-pis ]

noun

1. Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.

Kempis

/ ˈkɛmpɪs /

noun

1. KempisThomas à?13801471MGermanRELIGION: monkRELIGION: religious writer Thomas à. ?1380–1471, German Augustinian monk, generally regarded as the author of the devotional work The Imitation of Christ

Example Sentences

But fifty or so pages later his recoil from Christian self-sacrifice is palpable once again; he is repelled, for instance, by Thomas à Kempis’s lament, in “Imitation of Christ,” that “truly, it is an affliction to live in the world.”

From The New Yorker

So that to read the quotations from top to bottom, column by column, was rather like walking through an emergency station set up in a flood area, where, for example, Pascal had been unribaldly bedded down with Emily Dickinson, and where, so to speak, Baudelaire’s and Thomas a Kempis’s toothbrushes were hanging side by side.

From Literature

He especially recommended St. Augustine’s “Confessions” and Thomas à Kempis’s “The Imitation of Christ.”

From The New Yorker

These books had a profound impact on my thinking: “The Evolution of Civilizations,” by Carroll Quigley; “Politics as a Vocation,” by Max Weber; “The Denial of Death,” by Ernest Becker; “Imitation of Christ,” by Thomas à Kempis; “Meditations,” by Marcus Aurelius; “The Cure at Troy,” by Seamus Heaney; and “The Guns of August,” by Barbara Tuchman.

From New York Times

Even 15th-century famous spiritual writer German Thomas à Kempis didn’t make it through the process.

From Salon