pedant
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nt noun
1.
a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
2.
a person who overemphasizes rules or minor details.
3.
a person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense.
4.
Obsolete. a schoolmaster.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person who relies too much on academic learning or who is concerned chiefly with insignificant detail |
| 2. | archaic a schoolmaster or teacher |
| [C16: via Old French from Italian pedante teacher; perhaps related to Latin paedagōgus | |
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Word Origin & History
pedant
1588, "schoolmaster," from M.Fr. pédant (1566), from It. pedante "teacher, schoolmaster," apparently an alteration of L.L. paedagogantem (nom. paedagogans), prp. of paedagogare (see pedagogue). Meaning "person who trumpets minor points of learning" first recorded 1596.
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Example sentences
He was no longer addressing his peers by then but ministering to youthful acolytes, playing the pacifist pedant of the past.
Maybe I'm just a pedant at heart.
He appeared to them to be a queer kind of pedant; they did not care for him, and made no overtures to him, and he avoided them.
Nor was it undertaken with the narrow ambition of the pedant.
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