Dostoevskianadj.
/dɒstɔɪˈɛfskɪən//dɒstəʊˈ(j)ɛfskɪən/ Of, or characteristic of, Dostoevsky or his works.
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1925 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 12 Dec. 404 The Dostoievskian emphasis upon purification through suffering.
1929 London Aphrodite IV. 316 We are forced back into intellectual vicious-circles of self-scorn, and that is too dostoevskian.
1931 S. Beckett Proust 62 A fine Dostoievskian contempt for the vulgarity of a plausible concatenation.
1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. xv. 170 The Götterdämmerung of British rule in the Holy Land was not in the Wagnerian, but rather in the Dostoievskian style.
1959 Times 21 Mar. 9/5 The Dostoyevskian appreciation of the spark of the divine in every human soul.
1961 Times 30 Mar. 15/2 Jesus is shown as a despised Dostoevskian epileptic.
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