pedantry betydelse and definition

Exempel på pedantry

• It is not mere pedantry to insist on the proper use of grammar.

• She recognizes the pedantry of the narrator's style.

• His only fault was a tendency towards 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.