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Definition
too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
- For to satisfy such a want either, is not in the nature of this undertaking; since a mere modern wit can like nothing that is not modern, and a pedant nothing that is not Greek.Preface (91% in)
There are no more uses of "pedantic" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope).
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