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

Then she read a few pages of "Thomas Kempis," turned out her light, and lay still in the dark waiting for sleep.

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Others, catching a word here and there, said it was a quotation from Thomas Kempis.

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Altho commonly ascribed to Thomas à Kempis, there has been much controversy as to the real authorship of this famous work.

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It is the return of the nineteenth century to Thomas Kempis.

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Thomas--Kempis was but the forerunner of a race of distinguished literati.

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