Traherne

American  

[truh-hurn] / trəˈhɜrn /

noun

1. Thomas, 1637?–74, English writer.

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Traherne British  

/ trəˈhɜːn /

noun

1. 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

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Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2019

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 • May 19, 2018

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 • Mar. 24, 2017

The character, Susan Traherne — I think she’s one of the most interesting female characters in theatrical history.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2016

In a later passage of the same poem Traherne expresses this by saying: 'Tis not the Object, but the Light That maketh Hev'n.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst