Chiefly Rhetoric. The use of an excessively elaborate or elevated style to discuss a trivial matter; bombastic or laboured language.
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| 释义 | society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > laboured or pedantic quality (17) periergia1550 Chiefly Rhetoric. The use of an excessively elaborate or elevated style to discuss a trivial matter; bombastic or laboured language. pedantism1592 Pedantic language, attitude, or method; the habit of pedantry. stiffness1638 Formality; constraint; lack of ease or grace; coldness, aloofness (of manners and deportment); artificiality, excessive regularity, pedantry (of… pedantry1841 The character, habit of mind, or practice of a pedant. Mere academic learning, without judgement or discrimination; excessive reverence for or… non-naturalism1895 A non-natural feature or characteristic; (also) non-natural style. Subcategories:— use of (1) — instances (1) — composition (2) — literarism (5) — Latinizing (3) |
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