Dostoyevskeian

English Etymology From en Dostoyevsky ian. Adjective en Dostoyevskian. en The Nineteenth Century and After 88 1920 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. en Book Review Digest 37 1937 701 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. en Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association 1989 400 As the depressive needs a psychoanalyst, so too does the Dostoyevskeian protagonist need divine pardon and forgiveness. en Plays and Players 1994 42 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. en eponyms