Pedantry definitions

Pedantry

1) Academic hot air 2) Academic snobbery 3) Display of learning 4) Fanfare 5) French word used in English 6) Ostentation 7) Ostentatious academicism 8) Undue display of knowledge
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Pedantry

• (n.) The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.
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Pedantry

Ped'ant·ry noun [ Confer French pédanterie .] 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.
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/40

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pedantry

[n] - a ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
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pedantry

pedantry Ostentatiousness, formalism, didactism, or the like, in the presentation or application of knowledge or learning; especially, by a teacher or scholar.
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pedantry

[Frankenstein] ostentatious display of knowledge, or an instance of this; an arbitrary adherence to rules and forms.
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pedantry

noun an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974

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