The archaeology of such biographical dictionaries celebrates scholarship but also exposes pedantry, populism, and commercialism.
What is being described was no mere theoretical pedantry or game with words.
A new pedantry was coming of age, new fields were calling for new methods, which themselves required new means of expression.
This man has read everything, but it all appears in a pertinent, scholarly manner, without pedantry or flaunting fashionableness.
The syntax should be accurate according to the standards of the time, but not to excesses of grammatical pedantry.
His learning is wide and devoid of pedantry, the style is wonderfully readable and the organization and selection are judicious.
No doubt there are omissions and inaccuracies, and the 'cometocracy' will nitpick, but on my part the sheer volume of information contained in this book far outweighs any pedantry.
It is a pedantry to differentiate between them, and it must be rectified.
