Pedantry
['ped(ə)ntrɪ] or ['pɛdntri]
Definition
(noun.) an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning.
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Definition
(n.) The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Ostentation of learning, boastful display of knowledge.
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Examples
- For then you are dealing with living ideas: to search his text has its uses, but compared with the actual tradition of Marx it is the work of pedantry. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Once our profession becomes all absorbing it hardens into pedantry. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Wisdom passed away from Alexandria and left pedantry behind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Came an interlude of fanaticism or pedantry, when all the pressure was upon exact doctrine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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