Traherne

[ truh-hurn ]

noun

1. Thomas, 1637?–74, English writer.

Traherne

/ trəˈhɜːn /

noun

1. TraherneThomas16371674MEnglishRELIGION: mystical prose writerWRITING: poet Thomas . 1637–74, English mystical prose writer and poet. His prose works include Centuries of Meditations , which was discovered in manuscript in 1896 and published in 1908

Example Sentences

Blanchett played the heroine Susan Traherne in a post-war drama spanning 20 years.

From BBC

Thomas Traherne’s vision of “orient and immortal wheat” in the everyday corn comes from the same apprehension.

From The Guardian

One of the most famous flies is Major Traherne’s “chatterer.”

From National Geographic

They also observe an almost religious adherence to 19th-century texts written by Brits, like George Kelson or Major John Popkin Traherne.

From National Geographic

Written for the Crossing and the saxophone quartet Prism, “The Fifth Century” offers seven settings of poems by the seventeenth-century English clergyman and mystic Thomas Traherne.

From The New Yorker