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Pedantic
Pedantic Pe*dan"tic, Pedantical Pe*dan"tic*al, a.
Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or
resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a
pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical
affectation. ``Figures pedantical.' --Shak.
Pedantical
Pedantic Pe*dan"tic, Pedantical Pe*dan"tic*al, a.
Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or
resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a
pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical
affectation. ``Figures pedantical.' --Shak.
Pedantically
Pedantically Pe*dan"tic*al*ly, adv.
In a pedantic manner.
Pedanticly
Pedanticly Pe*dan"tic*ly, adv.
Pedantically. [R.]
Pedantism
Pedantism Ped"ant*ism, n.
The office, disposition, or act of a pedant; pedantry. [Obs.]
Pedantocracy
Pedantocracy Ped`an*toc"ra*cy, n. [Pedant + democracy.]
The sway of pedants. [R.] --J. S. Mill.
Pedanty
Pedanty Ped"ant*y, n.
An assembly or clique of pedants. [Obs.] --Milton.
Meaning of Pedant from wikipedia
- "The
Pedant" by
caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson...
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Grammar ****/spelling **** or
grammar pedant/spelling
pedant is a term for a
pedant who
compulsively criticizes or
corrects others'
grammar mistakes,...
- 2020.
Retrieved 24
November 2021. Kamm,
Oliver (12
December 2015). "The
Pedant: The
sheer usefulness of
singular 'they' is obvious". The Times. Archived...
- the
comedy Le
pédant joué
takes place and
whose prin****l, Jean
Grangier would inspire the
character of Granger, the
pedant of Le
pédant joué, but his...
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tempest of
malignant p****ions," and
referred to the
President as a "repulsive
pedant, a
gross hypocrite, and an
unprincipled oppressor." Callender,
already residing...
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original on 2013-11-01.
Retrieved 2013-10-30. "Adult
video veteran turns ****
pedant for new
stick flick school".
Mainichi Shimbun. 2003-06-11.
Retrieved 2007-05-12...
- 1 June 2023.
Wales 1996, p. 125. Kamm,
Oliver (12
December 2015). "The
Pedant: The
sheer usefulness of
singular 'they' is obvious". The Times. Archived...
- (management)
Micromanagement Nanny state Obsessive–compulsive
personality disorder Pedant "Control
freak Definition & Meaning". Dictionary.com.
Retrieved 2022-05-13...
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third editor, Naber,
found him contemptible.
Historians have seen him as a '
pedant and a bore', his
letters offering neither the
running political analysis...
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courage to say as an
author what he felt as a man. ... He was
neither a
pedant nor a bigot. ... In
treating of men and manners, he
spoke of them as he...
