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Definition of pedantry
pedantries
1 : pedantic presentation or application of knowledge or learning
2 : an instance of pedantry
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His gift was to teach without pedantry; to ask that one crucial question that illuminated the way out of the most difficult problem.
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What ensued in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and in a 29-page court decision handed down on Monday, was an exercise in high-stakes grammar pedantry that could cost a dairy company in Portland, Me.
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There is not an ounce of pedantry in his 85-minute monologue, an indescribably ridiculous collection of anecdotes and asides that miraculously blend into a whole.
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First Known Use of pedantry
1612
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