Definitionn. a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
Last update: February 21, 2017
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The gold pedants are very expensive. [noun]
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The whole plan was based upon defective information and preconceived ideas; it has gone down to history as a classical example of bad generalship, and its author Weyrother, who was perhaps nothing worse than a pedant, as a charlatan. [noun]
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A kindly old pedant, Fulcher interlards his history with much discourse on geography, zoology and sacred history. [noun]
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Parson Twemlow was no prig, no pedant, and no popinjay, but a sensible, upright, honorable man, whose chief defect was a quick temper. [noun]
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To which the pedant replied, with a malicious smile--"Animum rege, qui, nisi paret, imperat." [noun]
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Ten years later, with the love of Marius in her heart, she would have answered: "A pedant, and insufferable to the sight." [noun]
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This smart application to the pedant's withered posteriors gave him such exquisite pain that he roared like a mad bull, danced, cursed, and blasphemed, like a frantic bedlamite. [noun]
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This young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant. [noun]
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Happily Julius was ceasing to be a pedant, even in matters ecclesiastical. [Please select]
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