Both Uses of
pedantic
in
Middlemarch
- But the idea of this dried-up pedant, this elaborator of small explanations about as important as the surplus stock of false antiquities kept in a vendor's back chamber, having first got this adorable young creature to marry him, and then passing his honeymoon away from her, groping after his mouldy futilities (Will was given to hyperbole)—this sudden picture stirred him with a sort of comic disgust: he was divided between the impulse to laugh aloud and the equally unseasonable impulse…
Chpt 2pedant = someone too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
- "He's a cursed white-blooded pedantic coxcomb," said Will, with gnashing impetuosity.
Chpt 2 *pedantic = with excessive concern for formal rules, details, or book learning
Definition:
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(pedantic) too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning