¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pedants
1. pedant [n] - See also: pedant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedants
Literary usage of Pedants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Laokoon: An Essay on the Confusion of the Arts by Irving Babbitt (1910)
"The great musicians of the past were not pedants and formalists, and only pedants
1 The lines in which Gérard de Nerval describes the suggestive power of ..."
2. Decimal Classification and Relative Index for Libraries and Personal Use: In ...by Melvil Dewey by Melvil Dewey (1922)
"Disregard of pedants rules Thomas Jefferson said ' Where strictness of grammar
does not ... and disregard rules of pedants of his day. ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1799)
"... rich in ancient store, Armed with magisterial rage Spreads for thee her classic
lore í Urging ои thy tardy flight pedants guard the mystic page» To ..."
4. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"Montaigne ridicules the Humanistic pedants (Michel Seigneur de Montaigne, Essay
on the Education of Children, 1580; Essays book i, ..."
5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1856)
"... incur Mr. F. Newman's censure, who in his preface to the Homer to which we
have already alluded writes strongly against purists and pedants in English ..."
Other Resources:
Ido