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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pedantry \Ped"ant*ry\, noun [Cf. F. p['e]danterie.] The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. ''This pedantry of quotation.'' --Cowley.
'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. --Sir T. Browne.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pedantry
noun: a ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "pedantry": bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, ceremonialism, classical scholarship, classicism, culture, donnishness, elegance, eruditeness, erudition, euphemism, euphuism, exquisiteness, formalism, formality, goody-goodness, goody-goodyism, humanism, humanistic scholarship, intellectualism, intellectuality, learnedness, legalism, letters, literacy, overniceness, overpreciseness, overrefinement, pedantism, preciosity, preciousness, preciseness, precisianism, punctilio, punctiliousness, purism, reading, ritualism, scholarship, scrupulousness
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