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Definition of Pedantically
1. Adverb. In a pedantic manner. "These interpretations are called `schemas' or, more pedantically, `schemata'"
Definition of Pedantically
1. adv. In a pedantic manner.
Definition of Pedantically
1. Adverb. In a pedantic manner. ¹
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Definition of Pedantically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedantically
Literary usage of Pedantically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown (1851)
"This saying I suppose to mean, "To do a thing too faithfully, is, to do it
pedantically." "And, [Isay] truly, if they had been mindful of that country from ..."
2. Essays and Marginalia by Hartley Coleridge (1851)
"But it is better (of the two) to be pedantically natural, than pedantically affected.
Good Greek, even in ladies' company, is more creditable than bad ..."
3. The British Critic: A New Review (1823)
"But it is better (of the two) to be pedantically natural, than pedantically affected.
Good Greek, even in ladies company, is more creditable than bad French ..."
4. A Vindication of Trine Immersion as the Apostolic Form of Christian Baptism by James Quinter (1886)
"The words, "pedantically literal," are quoted by the author, and they were used
derogatory to immersion. The principle stated in the following words above ..."
5. Dr. Eachard's Works, ...: To which are Added Five Letters, Etc. by John Eachard (1705)
"Who, / fay, having faved together a few Academical Shreds* and pedantically ...
It was moft pedantically done of the ..."
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