- A
pedant (/ˈpɛd.ənt/ PED-ent) is a
person who is
excessively concerned with formalism,
accuracy and precision, or one who
makes an
ostentatious and arrogant...
- who "talk book-ish" (puhuvat kirjakieltä); it may have
connotations of
pedantry, exaggeration, moderation,
weaseling or
sarcasm (somewhat like
heavy use...
- 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...
-
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- hardback.
Judith Shulevitz,
writing in The New York Times,
criticized the "
pedantry" of Tolkien's
literary style,
saying that he "formulated a high-minded...
- from a
wasting disease which his
contemporaries joked was
caused by his
pedantry. Zeno of
Citium c. 262 BC The Gr****
philosopher from
Citium (Kition), Cyprus...
- 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...
-
sympathetic genius, but sense, judgement, proportion, and a
complete absence of
pedantry and pretension;
while the
orchestration is
distinguished by a
happy and...
