0 giving too much attention to formal rules or small details: --
They were being unnecessarily pedantic by insisting that Berry himself, and not his wife, should have made the announcement.
1 caring too much about unimportant rules or details and not enough about understanding or appreciating a subject: --
Similarly, there can be no pedantic equality, for what is equal on a fine scale must also be equal on a coarse scale. 31.
For them, ' politeness ' was achieved through civilized sociability, and through informed, but not pedantic, learning.
And they get extensive notes on the text, some rather pedantic, others very helpful in highlighting sources and suggesting appropriate secondary literature.
There would have been nothing at all strange or pedantic or remote about formations like these, nor any serious opposition on other grounds.
At the risk of appearing pedantic, we now present a non-linguistic example of this principle.
It seems to be associated with older or more pedantic or conservative speakers.
Summary information is provided without pedantic repetition and case studies are good examples of different issues.
The earlier somewhat pedantic prose now acquires a higher literary quality and becomes more personal.
