pedant in English

noun
1
a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.
Donoghue's a true historian, whose period detail is exacting enough to please the most pedantic of pedants , while her style displays an intimacy with the past that's both unpretentious and modern.
synonyms:dogmatistpuristliteralistformalistdoctrinaireperfectionistquibblerhair-splittercasuistsophistnitpicker
noun

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "pedant" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "pedant", or refer to the context using the word "pedant" in the English Dictionary.

1. He's an old pedant.

2. Anyway, Oliver's a pedant.

3. He is a perfect type of pedant.

4. This architect had been a pedant.

5. He's a great pedant, Oliver.

6. The habit of mind or manner characteristic pedant.

7. He's a bit of a pedant.

8. In the flesh she can be tart, a pedant even.

9. What does Academe mean? A scholar, especially a pedant

10. It is the work of a pedant, and shows no originality.

11. He is a real pedant. He just echoes what the book says.

12. A man of talent is one thing , and a pedant another.

13. Only pedant spends the ten minutes between classes in his seat.

14. A Captious pedant an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for Captious

15. 14 I am no pedant and avoid being dogmatic concerning English grammar and expression.

16. A pedant will always insist that you ask for 'fewer' items rather than 'less'.

17. He has been reading books all his life, and has become a pedant.

18. This old pedant is so rigid that he refuses to change his ideas.

19. The pedant likes to chant poems before his students in rhythmic measured tones.

20. I am no pedant and avoid being dogmatic concerning English grammar and expression.

21. As you drill all day heap in the book, not a pedant would be odd miles.

22. He claims that he was a little pedant, even as early as the age of five.

23. Does a pedant digest his common place book into a folio? he quickly becomes great.

24. A right little pedant she can be, when it comes to an intellectual argument.

25. Conundrum (n.) 1590s, an abusive term for a person, perhaps meaning "a pedant;" c

26. Her successor and distant cousin, James of Scotland, was a Bigoted pedant, and under his rule the perennial Court …

27. PEDANT. Ay, what else? And, but I be deceived, Signior Baptista may remember me Near twenty years ago in Genoa, Where we were lodgers at the Pegasus.

28. Abhominable: An old mode of spelling abominable , on the supposition that it was derived from <internalXref urlencoded="ab%20homine">ab homine</internalXref>, from or repugnant to man, ridiculed as pedantic by Shakspere in the character of the pedant Holofernes.