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noun, plural ped·ant·ries.the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning. slavish attention to rules, details, etc. an instance of being pedantic: the pedantries of modern criticism. Origin of pedantryFirst recorded in 1575–85, pedantry is from the Italian word pedanteria.See pedant, -ry Words nearby pedantrypedal pushers, pedal steel guitar, pedant, pedantic, pedanticism, pedantry, pedate, pedatifid, Ped.D., peddle, peddler Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for pedantryThe rumble at Hofstra was thrilling—a heady blend of testosterone and pedantry. At Last, a Passionate Political Debate!|Tunku Varadarajan|October 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST Seldom can testosterone and pedantry have come together in an American political debate in such electrifying marriage. At Last, a Passionate Political Debate!|Tunku Varadarajan|October 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST With all the profession of knowledge which was assumed by the people of this age, there went a great deal of pedantry. Women of England, Volume 9 (of 10)|Burleigh James Bartlett This observation, more profound perhaps than she herself was aware, is an arraignment of pedantry in execution. The Mind of the Artist|Various
But pedantry in this kind consists in using out-of-the-way terms when common ones are ready to hand. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1|George Saintsbury Pardon the pedantry of a Latin quotation, my dear, and tell me how I look. The prevalence however of this pedantry, was chiefly owing to one poet, of great though short-lived renown, Pierre Ronsard. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1|Henry Hallam
British Dictionary definitions for pedantry
noun plural -riesthe habit or an instance of being a pedant, esp in the display of useless knowledge or minute observance of petty rules or details Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to pedantrymeticulousness, precision, pretension, exactness, bookishness, dogmatism, pedagogery |