Pedantry Definition

pĕdn-trē
pedantries
noun
The qualities, practices, etc. of a pedant; ostentatious display of knowledge, or an instance of this.
Webster's New World
An arbitrary adherence to rules and forms.
Webster's New World
An instance of pedantic behavior.
Grew tired of his pedantries.
American Heritage

An excessive attention to detail or rules.

Wiktionary

An overly ambitious display of learning.

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Noun

Singular:
pedantry
Plural:
pedantries

Origin of Pedantry

  • pedant + -ry. From Middle French pedant, pedante, from Italian pedante (“a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant"), of uncertain origin, traced by some sources to Latin paedagogans, present participle of paedagogare (= to teach, from Greek "paedagogein" = to instruct children). Confer French pédanterie.

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Pedantry Sentence Examples

  • His poems are elegant and free from the conceits and pedantry of the earlier writers.

  • Learning, indeed, was often ridiculed as pedantry in a gentleman of good family.

  • He poses too much as a fine gentleman, and is so anxious not to be taken for a pedant of the vulgar scholastic kind that he falls into the hardly more attractive pedantry of the aesthete and virtuoso.

  • Marot and his school reacted against this pedantry.

  • He was an admirer of Marx's learning and analytical power, but he would never submit to the tyrannical pedantry of Marx's school and stood up for an elemental awaking of revolutionary instincts.

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