Definition of Pedantries

1. Noun. (plural of pedantry) ¹

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Definition of Pedantries

1. pedantry [n] - See also: pedantry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedantries

pedant
pedantic
pedantical
pedantically
pedanticism
pedantick
pedanticly
pedanties
pedantism
pedantize
pedantized
pedantizes
pedantizing
pedantocracies
pedantocracy
pedantries
pedantry
pedants
pedanty
pedarian
pedarians
pedaries
pedary
pedascule
pedata
pedate
pedate leaf
pedately
pedatifid
pedatrophia

Literary usage of Pedantries

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

1. Renaissance in Italy: The Catholic Reaction by John Addington Symonds (1887)
"He brought to his task preoccupations of divers and self-contradictory pedantries—pedantries of Catholicism, pedantries of scholasticism, pedantries of ..."

2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"... genius of the author struggling with the pedantries and affectations of his time, and the pedantries and affectations which overlaid his own mind. ..."

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