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Definition of Pedant

1. Noun. A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit.

Definition of Pedant

1. n. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.

Definition of Pedant

1. Noun. (obsolete) A teacher or schoolmaster. ¹

2. Noun. A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. ¹

3. Noun. A person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pedant

1. one who flaunts his knowledge [n -S] : PEDANTIC [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedant

Literary usage of Pedant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1887)
"A pedant, wishing to train his horse not to eat, gave him no fodder, ... A pedant who was trying to sell his house took round a stone from it as a specimen. ..."

2. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"He had the temper of a pedant, a pedant's conceit, a pedant's love of theories, and a pedant's inability to bring his theories into any relation with actual ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"Also, a Series of papers on pedants : No I. The Clerical pedant—No II. ... The Military pedant— No IV. The Quadrille pedant—No V. The Vertu pedant—No VI. ..."

4. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1901)
"In a word, I never in my life saw a more insupportable pedant than this poor fellow, with his plumet and his plastron. I am ignorant whether Anet perceived ..."

5. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"The next scene between the curate and the pedant recalls and exemplifies the familiar Latin dialogues which, as we have seen, formed at this stage an ..."

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