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Pedantic
Pedantic Pe*dan"tic, Pedantical Pe*dan"tic*al, a.
Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or
resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a
pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical
affectation. ``Figures pedantical.' --Shak.
Pedantical
Pedantic Pe*dan"tic, Pedantical Pe*dan"tic*al, a.
Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or
resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a
pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical
affectation. ``Figures pedantical.' --Shak.
Pedantically
Pedantically Pe*dan"tic*al*ly, adv.
In a pedantic manner.
Pedanticly
Pedanticly Pe*dan"tic*ly, adv.
Pedantically. [R.]
Pedantism
Pedantism Ped"ant*ism, n.
The office, disposition, or act of a pedant; pedantry. [Obs.]
Pedantocracy
Pedantocracy Ped`an*toc"ra*cy, n. [Pedant + democracy.]
The sway of pedants. [R.] --J. S. Mill.
Pedanty
Pedanty Ped"ant*y, n.
An assembly or clique of pedants. [Obs.] --Milton.
Meaning of Pedant from wikipedia
- show of learning. Look up
pedant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The
English language word
pedant comes from the
French pédant (used in 1566 in Darme...
- 2020.
Retrieved 24
November 2021. Kamm,
Oliver (12
December 2015). "The
Pedant: The
sheer usefulness of
singular 'they' is obvious". The Times. Archived...
- the
comedy Le
pédant joué
takes place and
whose prin****l, Jean
Grangier would inspire the
character of Granger, the
pedant of Le
pédant joué, but his...
- (management)
Micromanagement Nanny state Obsessive–compulsive
personality disorder Pedant "Control
freak Definition & Meaning". Dictionary.com.
Retrieved 2022-05-13...
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Linguistic prescription, also
called prescriptivism or
prescriptive grammar, is the
establishment of
rules defining preferred usage of language. These...
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courage to say as an
author what he felt as a man. ... He was
neither a
pedant nor a bigot. ... In
treating of men and manners, he
spoke of them as he...
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Linguistics Conference.
Wales 1996, p. 125. Kamm,
Oliver (12
December 2015). "The
Pedant: The
sheer usefulness of
singular 'they' is obvious". The Times. Retrieved...
- ****van's
Princess Ida (1884), the
Princess comments that "The narrow-minded
pedant still believes/That two and two make four! Why, we can prove,/We women—household...
- others,
either absolutely or
about a
standard variety. For example, some
pedants insist that
sentences in
English should not end with prepositions, a ban...
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PlayStation Vita ports, an artbook, and the
prequel game Fault:
Silence the
Pedant. Originally,
Munisix had
planned to
handle the
localization himself, but...
