Meanings of pedantism in English

They are often timorous and apprehensive, and prone to pedantism.

He himself, in his habitual pedantism, thus divided them, and according placed them in three different portfolios.

Now began the native spleen of Oceana to be much purged, and men not to affect sullenness and pedantism.

Although slightly tinged with pedantism and preciosity, its freshness, its grace, its inspiration and sincerity, give it a flavour almost of primitive art.