pedantry
noun
the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.
pedantries
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pluralof pedantry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He was an observational genius whose main talent was for exposure — exposure of the predictable opponent and exposure of pedantries, and he treated both as pretty much the same thing.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2022
There is a withering crossfire of pedantries in nearly all academic discussions of slavery and American blacks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he made a crooked face about his bed, while I laughed at him for his whims, his fancies, and his dogged pedantries.
From The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Timothy Templeton
He would hear nothing of the technical pedantries and legal sophistries submitted to him.
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by John St. Loe Strachey
But the pedantries and affectations of this wonderful society seem to have made no immediate impression upon La Rochefoucauld, whose early years were those of the young nobleman devoid of all apparent intellectual curiosity.
From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Edmund Gosse
