Constitutions are to read broadly and not pedantically.
That, effectively, would distingusih their case on respectable and not at all pedantically legalistic grounds from those others who might wish to have a similar status.
I do not say that pedantically.
I think they made a mistake in believing it necessary to adhere pedantically and rigidly to the scheme of demobilisation to which we have all agreed.
I found myself asking him, perhaps a little pedantically, about his respect for authority.
The matter is not being interpreted pedantically but in a fairly relaxed way.
That would be disregarded under what we lawyers pedantically call the de minimis rule.
This debate has been most entertaining and fairly wide-ranging and was not confined religiously and pedantically to the motion.
