Traherne

[truh-hurn]

noun

1. Thomas, 1637?–74, English writer.

Traherne

/ 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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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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.

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