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Definition of Pedantries
1. pedantry [n] - See also: pedantry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedantries
Literary usage of Pedantries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Renaissance in Italy: The Catholic Reaction by John Addington Symonds (1887)
"He brought to his task preoccupations of divers and self-contradictory
pedantries—pedantries of Catholicism, pedantries of scholasticism, pedantries of ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"... genius of the author struggling with the pedantries and affectations of his
time, and the pedantries and affectations which overlaid his own mind. ..."
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