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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...
- 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...
- non-tech videos, in 2015 he started another channel, called the "Youtube Pedant". In a 2016 video covering the D-VHS format, he uncovered a 1080i video...
- 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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- tempest of malignant p****ions," and referred to the President as a "repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite, and an unprincipled oppressor." Callender, already residing...
- 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...
- 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...