pedantry Maksud & Definisi

Contoh pedantry

• 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.