Synonyms for pedant
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ped-nt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛd nt |
Définition of pedant
Origin :- 1580s, "schoolmaster," from Middle French pédant (1560s) or directly from Italian pedante, literally "teacher, schoolmaster," of uncertain origin, apparently an alteration of Late Latin paedagogantem (nominative paedagogans), present participle of paedagogare (see pedagogue). Meaning "person who trumpets minor points of learning" first recorded 1590s.
- noun formalist
- You think yourself happy because you are wise, said a philosopher to a pedant.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- But the license is actually got: the parson is provided: the pedant Brand is the man.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Any one who questions our triumphant progress is tabooed for a pedant.
- Extract from : « Another Sheaf » by John Galsworthy
- He talks pleasantly, and nothing of a pedant, as I half dreaded he might be.
- Extract from : « The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- It has been well said of him that he never became either a pedant or a doctrinaire.
- Extract from : « Erasmus and the Age of Reformation » by Johan Huizinga
- The pedant, cursed with the ambition to be a ruler of men, is a curious study.
- Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) » by John Morley
- It is hard for an Englishman to be a pedant; it is not easy for a German to be anything else.
- Extract from : « Appearances » by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
- Happily Julius was ceasing to be a pedant, even in matters ecclesiastical.
- Extract from : « The History of Sir Richard Calmady » by Lucas Malet
- He would be only a pedant who would take nothing because he could not get everything at once.
- Extract from : « Georgina's Reasons » by Henry James
- That matters very little, except to a pedant and a rhetorician.
- Extract from : « Expositions of Holy Scripture » by Alexander Maclaren
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