English

Pronunciation
a|US IPA|/�p�d.�n.tri/
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Noun
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1. The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.

#: Winston Churchill was once informed that one should not end a sentence with a preposition. His response was, That is the sort of arrogant pedantry up with I will not put. (Phrasing it that way so that he did not again use 'with' as the last word of the sentence.)

Related terms
pedant
pedantic

Translations
trans-top|vain ostentation of learning
French: pédanterie f
German: Pedantry m
Greek: ��ολα��ικ��η�α f
Hebrew: he-translation|�ק��ק� ענ��ת|dikdûkei aniyût
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Korean: ��
Spanish: pedantería f
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