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Pedantry (/ˈpɛd.ən.tri/ PED-ən-tree) 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...
- but the
paranoid will
outdo him in the
apparatus of scholarship, even of
pedantry. ... The Ku Klux Klan
imitated Catholicism to the
point of
donning priestly...
- 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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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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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...
- 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...
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Easily Change a Law Received" "Various
Events from the Same Counsel" "Of
Pedantry" "Of the
Education of Children" "Folly to
Measure Truth and
Error by Our...
