All 6 Uses

pedantic
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
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After that he talked solemnly, pedantically, of the Sunlight Man's uncanny powers, and the more he talked the surer he was that all he was saying (and all they said, too) was nonsense.
Chpt 2

pedantically = with too much concern for details
She was as angry as the river, repelled by his pettiness and pedantry, his flight from the furious truth of the place to the name of a paltry trickle.†
Chpt 4 *

pedantry = being too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
Pedant.†
Chpt 5

pedant = someone too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
Pedant.†
Chpt 5
pedant.†
Chpt 5
We mount the stamped-out steps of the city bus with humility, knowing our gall, and more or less pure of heart as three old Jews (a balding, middle-aged man and his two thin sons, pedants in plastic spectacles, each one bearing, timidly, his meaningless, cheap token).†
Chpt 5

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

Definitions:

(1) (pedantic)
too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
In historic literature, you may see pedant used as a synonym for school teacher.