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Pedantry (/ˈpɛd.ən.tri/ PED-en-try) is an
excessive concern with formalism,
minor details, and
rules that are not important.
Pedantry is the adjective...
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Grammar ****s of America. A
later pop-culture
reference to ****sm as
pedantry was in a 1995
episode of the
sitcom Seinfeld,
entitled "The Soup ****"...
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Judith Shulevitz,
writing in The New York Times,
criticized the "
pedantry" of Tolkien's
literary style,
saying that he "formulated a high-minded...
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house the
soldiers for six
months of the year.
Curtiss finds that "The
pedantry of Nicholas's
military system,
which stressed unthinking obedience and...
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demonstrate that he was
distinguished by
qualities very
different from the
pedantry and
conceit usually ****ociated with his name.
Gabriel Harvey was the eldest...
- Acquisitions: 1933 and the
Definition of Fascism". A
Collection of
Unmitigated Pedantry.
Retrieved October 28, 2024.
Devore 2019.
Finchelstein 2017, pp. 11–13...
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describe a
follower of Duns Scotus, a
person engaged in
ridiculous pedantry, or a
person regarded as a "fool" or "dimwit". A
visual depiction of the...
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undisguised arrogance did not
endear him to the jury [and]
neither did his
pedantry",
wrote Duncan Staff.
Hindley denied any
knowledge that the photographs...
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appeared as "Pedants", "Pedant's" or "Ped'ants Corner". It was
renamed "
Pedantry Corner" in 2008
following a reader’s suggestion.
Listing pretentious, pseudo-intellectual...
- Theocritus, wh. was
privately printed. This was my
first production:
puerile pedantry. In
November 1821,
shortly before his
seventeenth birthday,
Disraeli was...
