Dostoyevskeian

English

Etymology

From Dostoyevsky +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Dostoyevskeian (comparative more Dostoyevskeian, superlative most Dostoyevskeian)

1. Alternative form of Dostoyevskian
   • 1920, The Nineteenth Century and After, volume 88, page 1102:

     All day long and all night men tramped back and forth, Dostoyevskeian figures in rough garb—and slept there, rested and ate there, held services even.

   • 1937, Book Review Digest, volume 37, page 701, column 1:

     But it is ungrateful to cavil at trifles when there is so much that is fine in this picture, without sombre Dostoyevskeian shadows, of a modern Prince Muishkin in New York.

   • 1989, Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, page 400:

     As the depressive needs a psychoanalyst, so too does the Dostoyevskeian protagonist need divine pardon and forgiveness.

   • 1994, Plays and Players, page 42, column 3:

     Cursed to tell the truth yet never to be believed, this Trojan prisoner is mocked by the Chorus and makes clear the times where she is seized by a prophetic fever as if by a holy Dostoyevskeian epilepsy.