Meaning of PEDANTRY
| Pronunciation: | | 'pedntree
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| | Definition: | | [n] a ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning |
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| | Definition: | | \Ped"ant*ry\, n. [Cf. F. p['e]danterie.]
The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation
of learning. ``This pedantry of quotation.'' --Cowley.
'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. --Sir T.
Browne.
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| | Related Terms: | | bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, ceremonialism, classical scholarship, classicism, culture, donnishness, elegance, eruditeness, erudition, euphemism, euphuism, exquisiteness, formalism, formality, goody-goodness, goody-goodyism, humanism, humanistic scholarship, intellectualism, intellectuality, learnedness, legalism, letters, literacy, overniceness, overpreciseness, overrefinement, pedantism, preciosity, preciousness, preciseness, precisianism, punctilio, punctiliousness, purism, reading, ritualism, scholarship, scrupulousness |
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