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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. Fowler's
Concise Dictionary...
- ed. (2017).
Captain Cuttle's Mailbag: History, Folklore, and
Victorian Pedantry from the
Pages of "Notes and Queries".
Laboratory Books. pp. 15–16. ISBN 9781946053039...
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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...
- hardback.
Judith Shulevitz,
writing in The New York Times,
criticized the "
pedantry" of Tolkien's
literary style,
saying that he "formulated a high-minded...
- who "talk book-ish" (puhuvat kirjakieltä); it may have
connotations of
pedantry, exaggeration, moderation,
weaseling or
sarcasm (somewhat like
heavy use...
- The city "boasted of her
intellectual supper-parties, where,
amidst a
pedantry which would now make
laughter hold both his sides,
there was much that...
- unfaithful." Cf. a
supposed comment by
Winston Churchill: "This is the type of
pedantry up with
which I will not put." "Interpretation" in this
sense is to be...
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epistles did not link up with the narrative,
there was too much
antiquarian pedantry, and Marmion's
character was immoral. The most
familiar lines in the poem...
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topics that he
wrote about. His
essays On the
Education of Children, On
Pedantry, and On
Experience explain the
views he had on
child education.: 61 : 62 : 70 ...
- from
those of
earlier scholars—in
other words,
taking on
connotations of
pedantry, monotony, and lack of originality.
Mention of both the
Great Library of...
