Definition of Tolstoian. Meaning of Tolstoian. Synonyms of Tolstoian

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Definition of Tolstoian

Tolstoian
Tolstoyan Tol*stoy"an, Tolstoian Tol*stoi"an, a. Of or pertaining to Tolstoy (1828-1910). -- n. A follower of Tolstoy, who advocates and practices manual labor, simplicity of living, nonresistance, etc., holds that possession of wealth and ownership of property are sinful, and in religion rejects all teachings not coming from Christ himself.

Meaning of Tolstoian from wikipedia

- The Tolstoyan movement is a social movement based on the philosophical and religious views of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910). Tolstoy's views...
- Emperor Augustus, in the HBO/BBC series Rome. She then appeared as Masha, a Tolstoian, in The Last Station, a film about the last months of Leo Tolstoy's life...
- in contemporary and in earlier history. Nearing's chosen lifestyle of "Tolstoian," ascetic, rural self-sufficiency may be reasonably interpreted as the...
- Titanic prime) Tolkienism – J. R. R. Tolkien Tolstoyan – Leo Tolstoy; also Tolstoian TorricellianEvangelista Torricelli (as in Torricellian chamber) Trotskyist...
- people, characters of The Silver Dove are not full-blooded figures in the Tolstoian sense; they are caught between reality and dreamscapes, rarely in control...
- aristocrat disowned by his family because he preached - and practised - Tolstoian principles; a poet and a man of great knowledge, whom poverty reduced...
- critics, who judge the Russian novel by the criteria of Dostoevskian or Tolstoian novel of ideas, complain about the triviliazation of issues such as the...