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pedantry|ˈpɛdəntrɪ|
Also 7 pedanterie, -ery.
[ad. It. pedanteria (used by Sidney), f. pedante; or its F. repr. pédanterie (Pasquier, 1560 in Hatz.-Darm.): see pedant and -ery, -ry.]
1. The character, habit of mind, or mode of proceeding, characteristic of a pedant; mere learning without judgement or discrimination; conceit or unseasonable display of learning or technical knowledge.
1612Donne Progr. Soul ii. 291 When wilt thou shake off this pedantery Of being taught by sense and fantasie? 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. vi. 24 A practise that savours much of Pedantery. 1710Steele Tatler No. 224 ⁋7 Pedantry proceeds from much Reading and little Understanding. 1766Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. (1767) I. vii. 298 That men are frighted at Female pedantry is very certain. 1802–25Syd. Smith Ess. (ed. Beeton) 95 Pedantry is an ostentatious obtrusion of knowledge, in which those who hear us cannot sympathise. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 100 The pedantry of mixing Greek and Latin terms in the vernacular language is ridiculed by Rabelais.
b. with pl. An instance of this: a piece of pedantry, a pedantic form, expression, etc.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 19 Skill of gouernment, was but a Pedanteria in comparison. 1656Blount Glossogr., Pedanteries, pedantick humors, phrase affectings, Inkhorn terms. Br. 1778Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry xxv. II. 133 The narrow pedantries of monastic erudition. 1864Burton Scot Abr. I. i. 19 A series of feudal pedantries.
2. Undue insistence on forms or details; slavish adherence to rule, theory, or precedent, in connexion with a particular profession or practice.
[1724Swift Drapier's Lett. v, The pedantry of a drapier in the terms of his own trade.] 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. III. 124 Even Erasmus, spite of the favour he enjoyed at court, found no mercy from monkish pedantry. 1863P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 119 He who slavishly adheres to rule displays pedantry at every turn. a1869Visct. Strangford Sel. Writ. I. 92 Pedantry, we take it, signifies undue stress laid on insignificant detail, and over⁓valuation of petty accuracy. 1902Fairbairn Philos. Chr. Relig. ii. ii. 410 To require that every element in a figurative word be found again in the reality it denotes, is not exegesis but pedantry. |