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Toynbeean, a.|ˈtɔɪnbiːən|
[f. the name of Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889–1975), British historian + -an.]
Of or pertaining to Toynbee, his style, or his theories of the rise and decline of civilizations.
1954W. K. Hancock Country & Calling viii. 221 Even when he has attained these two virtues of attachment and justice, the historian still needs a third, which I call span. This resembles the Toynbeean quality of remoteness. 1962Listener 8 Feb. 240/1, I would translate your words into Toynbeean English, namely an answer to a challenge. 1966New Statesman 18 Feb. 230/3 A remark..that ‘the mature societies of Europe..in numerous ways..responded to the challenge’ has the authentic Toynbeean stamp. 1975Asian Affairs LXII. 239, I speak of dominance in the Toynbeean sense of a dominant civilization. |