A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit.
Personality type; person obsessed with detail or process, often negatively perceived.
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Happily Julius was ceasing to be a pedant, even in matters ecclesiastical.
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Refined, cultured, and intelligent, he was also a pedant and a bore.
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What is a greater pedant than a mere man of the town?
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The pedant-forsuch seemed to be his character in the troupe-bowed his acknowledgments.
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You cannot speak of Tao to a pedant; his scope is too restricted.
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It cannot be the pedant, or the conservative, or anything rash and irreverent.
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He would study the game with a pedant's eye for detail.
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There was nothing of the scholarly prig or pedant about him.
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A pedant might have called it honour, but Mr. Lovel was no pedant.
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That matters very little, except to a pedant and a rhetorician.
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One year inspires you-fourmay get you pot-bound with pedant prejudice.
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With all this learning, Carteret was far from being a pedant.
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His voice was husky-his manners chilling-hisconverse that of a pedant.
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Can you imagine a pedant, a scold, and a coquette in one woman?
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My uncle settled into his chair, and smiled like a pedant.
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Green, I'll punch your head for you directly, you unspeakable pedant!
