About The Word Pedantry
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Pedantry
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What's The Definition Of Pedantry?
[n] a ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
Synonyms | Synonyms for Pedantry: Related Terms | Find terms related to Pedantry: bibliolatry | bibliomania | bluestockingism | book learning | book madness | bookiness | bookishness | booklore | ceremonialism | classical scholarship | classicism | culture | donnishness | elegance | eruditeness | erudition | euphemism | euphuism | exquisiteness | formalism | formality | goody-goodness | goody-goodyism | humanism | humanistic scholarship | intellectualism | intellectuality | learnedness | legalism | letters | literacy | overniceness | overpreciseness | overrefinement | pedantism | preciosity | preciousness | preciseness | precisianism | punctilio | punctiliousness | purism | reading | ritualism | scholarship | scrupulousness See Also | fanfare | ostentation Pedantry In Webster's Dictionary \Ped"ant*ry\, n. [Cf. F. p['e]danterie.]
The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation
of learning. ``This pedantry of quotation.'' --Cowley.
'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. --Sir T.
Browne.
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