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Definition of Pedantry
1. Noun. An ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning.
Definition of Pedantry
1. n. The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.
Definition of Pedantry
1. Noun. An excessive attention to detail or rules. ¹
2. Noun. An instance of such behaviour. ¹
3. Noun. An overly ambitious display of learning. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pedantry
1. ostentatious display of knowledge [n -RIES]
Medical Definition of Pedantry
1. The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." "'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry." (Sir T. Browne) Origin: Cf. F. Pedanterie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedantry
Literary usage of Pedantry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literary Character: Or, The History of Men of Genius, Drawn from Their by Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1881)
"Yet this monarch of all things detested pedantry, either as it shows itself in
the mere form of Greek and Latin, or in ostentatious book-learning, ..."
2. The Literary Character: Or, the History of Men of Genius, Drawn from Their by Isaac Disraeli (1868)
"THE pedantry OF JAMES THE FIRST. FEW of my readers, I suspect, but have long been
persuaded that James I. was a mere college pedant, and that all his works, ..."
3. English Prose: Selections by Henry Craik (1895)
"pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. ... He is undoubtedly guilty
of pedantry, who, when he has made himself master of some abstruse and ..."
4. Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts: Including by John Heneage Jesse (1855)
"His pedantry," says Lord Bolingbroke, " was too much even for the age in which
he lived;" and again he adds:—"He affected more learning than became a King, ..."
5. Miscellanies of Literature. by Isaac Disraeli (1841)
"Yet this monarch of all things detested pedantry, either as it shows itself in
the mere form of Greek and Latin, or in ostentatious book-learning, ..."
6. Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the by William Scott (1823)
"On pedantry. pedantry, hi the common sense of the word, means an absurd ...
Instead of a black coat and a plain shirt, we should often see pedantry appear ..."
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