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pedantry

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ped·ant·ry  (pdn-tr)
n. pl. ped·ant·ries
1. Pedantic attention to detail or rules.
2. An instance of pedantic behavior.
3. The habit of mind or manner characteristic of a pedant.
pedantry [ˈpɛdəntrɪ]
n pl -ries
the habit or an instance of being a pedant, esp in the display of useless knowledge or minute observance of petty rules or details
pedantry
pedanticism, def. 2.
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Noun1.pedantry - an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
fanfare, ostentation, flash - a gaudy outward display
pedantry
noun
1. hairsplitting, quibbling, pomposity, sophistry, punctiliousness, finickiness, pettifoggery, finicality, overnicety The results of the survey are exhaustive to the point of pedantry.
2. stuffiness, pomposity, intellectualism, pretentiousness, bookishness, donnishness, pedagogism The novel suffers from pedantry and dullness.
Quotations
"Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge" [Holbrook Jackson Anatomy of Bibliomania]
Translations
pedantry [ˈpedəntrɪ] N → pedantería f
pedantry
n → Pedanterie f
pedantry [ˈpɛdəntrɪ] n → pedanteria
pedantry [ˈpɛdəntrɪ] n → pedanteria


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Pardon the pedantry of a Latin quotation, and believe me,
No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context
I wonder now that I did not see how my physician avoided his medicine, but I did not, and I went on to spend myself in an endeavor as vain and senseless as any that pedantry has conceived.
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By degrees they sink into the category of the reactionary conservative Socialists depicted above, differing from these only by more systematic pedantry, and by their fanatical and superstitious belief in the miraculous effects of their social science.
The Communist Manifesto by Marx, Karl & Engles, Frederick View in context
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