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pedantic
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This Side of Paradise
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- Two years more of mere pedantry and lying around a club aren't going to help.†
Chpt 1.2 *pedantry = being too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
- He was disappointed, too, at the air of general uncertainty on every subject that seemed linked with the pedantic temperament; his opinions took shape in a miniature satire called "In a Lecture-Room," which he persuaded Tom to print in the Nassau Lit.†
Chpt 1.3pedantic = with excessive concern for formal rules, details, or book learning
- Asker of questions....How he'll stand, With earnest air and fidgy hand, After this hour, telling you He sat all night and burrowed through Your book....Oh, you'll be coy and he Will simulate precosity, And pedants both, you'll smile and smirk, And leer, and hasten back to work.... 'Twas this day week, sir, you returned A theme of mine, from which I learned (Through various comment on the side Which you had scrawled) that I defied The highest rules of criticism For cheap and careless witticism.... 'Are you quite sure that this could be?'†
Chpt 1.3pedants = people too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
- supposing she wasn't beautiful—supposing she was forty and pedantic—heavens!†
Chpt 2.3pedantic = with excessive concern for formal rules, details, or book learning
Definitions:
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(pedantic) too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In historic literature, you may see pedant used as a synonym for school teacher.