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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
His voice took on the dry, pedantic tones of Mr. Jenkins.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

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

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 = people too concerned with 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 = with excessive concern for 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 book learning

All else he excluded (almost pedantically) from his memory.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being

pedantically = with too much concern for details

He was a bright, free, generous spirit, he had all the illumination of wisdom and none of its pedantry, and yet he was distressfully dying.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2

pedantry = excessive concern for details or book learning

Most villainously; like a pedant that keeps a school i' the church.
William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night

pedant = someone 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

"That's all pedantry and innovation, no use listening to it," the monks decided.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov

pedantry = too much concern for 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

Mr. Diaz, who really needs to work on his anger management issues, yelled at me for disrupting his class with what he called my 'pedantic quibbles.'
Laurie Halse Anderson -- The Impossible Knife of Memory

pedantic = excessive concern for details

"He's a cursed white-blooded pedantic coxcomb," said Will, with gnashing impetuosity.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch

pedantic = with excessive concern for 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

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