Pedants is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PEDANTS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• PEDANT, a person who parades or reveres excessively academic learning or technical knowledge
• a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one who flaunts his knowledge

Words related to PEDANTS

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How to use PEDANTS in a sentence

• Aristocratic pedants call everybody an adventurer who makes his fortune by his genius and his accomplishments.
• Galileo was not more offensive to the pedants and priests of his generation than Abelard was to the Schoolmen and monks of his day.
• Had the question been settled, as Doctor Eck supposed, by authorities, as lawyers and pedants would settle the question, Luther would have been beaten.
• But whether the Babylonians or the Egyptians were the earliest astronomers is of little consequence, although the pedants make it a grave matter of investigation.
• This view is wholly scientific, though pedants may quarrel with my way of putting it.
• There are Pedants in Breeding as well as in Learning.
• Here again the pedants under consideration exhibit the illogical perversity that makes the brain reel.
• There is a legendary Tasso, the victim of malevolent persecution by pedants, the mysterious lover condemned to misery in prison by a tyrannous duke.
• Briefly, he produced a caricature, modeled upon no existing work of modern art, but corresponding to the lineaments of that Desired of the Nation which pedants had prophesied.
• The cultivated classes abandoned it in practice to popular creators of melody upon the one hand, and to grotesque scholastic pedants on the other.
• He who was so much at his ease on the shores of his charming little lake, felt constrained and not at home in the company of pedants.
• Doctors are a lot of prejudiced pedants and hypocrites.
• The Great Elector, Frederick the Great, Napoleon, and Bismarck made Germany, and her philosophers and pedants are only responsible for the softness that made it possible.
• And this will be an everlasting monument to show that those puny self-conceited pedants, ballock-framers, were rather contemned than condemned by you.
• He has indeed rescued it out of the hands of pedants and fools, and discovered the true method of making it amiable and lovely to all mankind.
• Shallow Pedants cry up one another much more than Men of solid and useful Learning.
• It misses its aim if it produces learned pedants, or simple artisans, or cunning sophists, or pretentious practitioners.
• We are tempted to hail in Wolff a true poet in an age of pedants and false prophets.
• The fear of being thought pedants hath been of pernicious consequence to young divines.
• I regret that it should have been deemed necessary to make stupid pedants of Hindu malees by providing them with a classical nomenclature for plants.
• It seemed to me, moreover, that every Art of Poetry was marvelously useless, and that certain rules were mummies embalmed by the hand of pedants.
• There are Nibelungen dwelling by choice underground and happy pedants in the upper air.

Similar words containing PEDANT without suffix s

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