Pedantry is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PEDANTRY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• ostentatious display of knowledge
• excessive concern with minor details and rules
• practice of being a pedant, esp in the minute observance of petty rules or details
• The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.
• an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning

Words related to PEDANTRY

pedanticism18 pedantries13

How to use PEDANTRY in a sentence

• There we meet the slime of hypocrisy, the varnish of courts, the cant of pedantry, the cobwebs of the law, the iron hand of power.
• Many of these have been so brilliantly successful that only pedantry would deny their value.
• All the tyrants of past ages are brought from the shelves of faction and pedantry, and assimilated to the mild and circumscribed monarchs of modern Europe.
• But there is something peculiarly laughable in the pedantry of such criticism.
• Much of his pedantry was now lopped off, it is true, because the pride of his station prevented him from entering into discussions with the people.
• The intolerable pedantry and the hypocritical goody-goodyism must be banished forever.
• But his scholarship was redeemed from pedantry by his wide reading, and by his genuine enthusiasm for all that is graceful in literature, modern as well as ancient.
• It is only pedantry has made it dreary, only blindness has left it dull.
• Pedantry is the plague of German art, and the greatest men have not escaped it.
• By these means the poets, for many years past, were all overrun with pedantry.
• He learned well, without much exertion and with no pedantry, receiving gold medals for his essays.
• We limit ourselves to pointing this out, as it would be pedantry to attempt to reduce such influences into classes.
• It is plain, Spencer neglected this pedantry, who in his Pastoral of November, mentions the mournful song of the Nightingale.
• Not pedantry, but with the deep-lying fundamental truth that humanity ought to know.
• There are no doubt here and there simple discussions but there is no pedantry or gymnastics of logic.
• From the universities, the young nobility, and others of great fortunes, are sent for early up to town, for fear of contracting any airs of pedantry, by a college education.
• Most of them are quite above the pedantry of small facts.
• The genius of Tractarianism had rocked her cradle, and subsequently ruled her studies with a narrowly complacent pedantry all its own.
• Perhaps it is even expressed in the first squalls of infancy, though this possibility has been overlooked or obscured by philosophic pedantry.

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