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Definition

too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning

In historic literature, you may see pedant used as a synonym for school teacher.

pedantic = overly concerned with book learning

pedantry = excessive concern with rules taught in school

Of course the man's a pedant.
Maugham, W. Somerset -- Of Human Bondage
A domineering pedant o'er the boy,
Shakespeare, William -- Love's Labour's Lost
The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves was that we were not important, we mustn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We're nothing more than dust-jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

pedants = showoffs of academic knowledge

Indeed he was more pedantic than I can represent him, and placed more scraps of Latin in his speech; but...
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped

pedantic = too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning

pedant = someone too concerned with book learning

The man who has risen in society is overrefined, the young scholar is pedantic.
C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters

pedantic = too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning

LIZA [speaking with pedantic correctness of pronunciation and great beauty of tone] How do you do, Mrs. Higgins?
George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion

pedantic = excessive concern with formal rules, details, or book learning

...no pedant sophisters to confound us with unintelligible mysteries:
Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe

pedant = someone too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning

to which Angus was reputed to have replied that Joseph Strorm was a flinty-souled pedant, and bigoted well beyond reason.
John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids

pedant = someone too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning

But I have been pedantically exact, as you call it.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

pedantically = with too much concern for details or book learning

I'm just so sick of pedants and conceited little tearer-downers I could scream.
J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey

pedants = people too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning

pedants = people too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning

before you know it, it'll be 4 P.M. and the pedantic Dr. Dussel will be standing with the clock in his hand because I'm one minute late clearing off the table.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

pedantic = too concerned with formal rules and details

Some other math professors at Brown have murmured that it's dense and pedantic almost to the point of being unusable or, as Berman warned some students, "definitely not self-serve."
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen

pedantic = too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning

This, along with his phraseology, now and then was suggestive of the grounds whereon rested that imputation of a certain pedantry socially alleged against him by certain naval men of wholly practical cast,
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd

pedantry = being too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning

Jonathan was holding me by the arm, the way he used to in the old days before I went to school. I felt it very improper, for you can't go on for some years teaching etiquette and decorum to other girls without the pedantry of it biting into yourself a bit.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

pedantry = excessive concern with minor details and rules

After forty years' experience, he had learnt to manage his life and make the best of it on advanced European lines, had developed his personality, explored his limitations, controlled his passions—and he had done it all without becoming either pedantic or worldly.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India

pedantic = excessive concern with formal rules, or book learning; or inappropriate showing off of knowledge

pedantic = too concerned with book learning

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