pedantries
- plural of pedantry.
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
It is a marvel of industry and accuracy,--the most elaborate of all his works, but probably the least read because of its enormous length and scholastic pedantries.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by Lord, John
These sort of pedantries were a passion with him, and I did not interpose a word as he spoke.
From That Boy Of Norcott's by Lever, Charles James
In those days," says Warton, "ecclesiastics and schoolmen presumed to dictate to kings and to give rules for administering states, drawn from the narrow circle of speculation, and conceived amid the pedantries of a cloister.
From Game and Playe of the Chesse A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition, 1474 by Caxton, William
