Tolstoy
noun
Leo or Lev Nikolaevich Count, 1828–1910, Russian novelist and social critic.
Tolstoyan
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a word derived from
Tolstoy.
Example Sentences
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Ms. Rizer begins in a peasant shift of woven jute and ends, after seven layers and 154 pounds of increasing Tolstoyan grandeur, cocooned in a wintry mantle of taupe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
Johnson means to offer a way out of the Tolstoyan conundrum.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019
Bulky enough in an ordinary edition, the large print is stupendous — but there is something Tolstoyan about its girth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2018
And of course each particular democracy in the West, like each particular unhappy Tolstoyan family, is manifesting its reaction to this in different ways, some way better than others.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2017
Her son, the teenage Tolstoyan, believed that wealth was shameful, corrupting, inherently evil—which is ironic because Chris was a natural-born capitalist with an uncanny knack for making a buck.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
