Antonyms for pedantry
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ped-n-tree |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛd n tri |
Definition of pedantry
Origin :- 1610s, from Italian pedanteria, from pedante, or from French pédanterie, from pédant (see pedant).
- noun sophistry
- Pedantry and affectation began to take the place of boldness and strength.
- Extract from : « Chinese Painters » by Raphael Petrucci
- His classical attainments, if not florid, were liberal, and free from pedantry.
- Extract from : « The English Spy » by Bernard Blackmantle
- Our society is free from pedantry; and there—no damage can result where no one's the wiser.
- Extract from : « An Outcast » by F. Colburn Adams
- Once our profession becomes all absorbing it hardens into pedantry.
- Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann
- When he writes of ships he does not tease us with the pedantry of technical terms.
- Extract from : « Suspended Judgments » by John Cowper Powys
- They have to us an air of formality, a slight dash of pedantry.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. » by Various
- Gossip preferable to pedantry, 63;seven centuries off, 92, 97.
- Extract from : « Past and Present » by Thomas Carlyle
- Patriotism is suspected, and sometimes sinks almost to pedantry.
- Extract from : « The Prime Minister » by Anthony Trollope
- The dogmatism and pedantry upon which it is based are easily confuted.
- Extract from : « American Sketches » by Charles Whibley
- Yet even his devotion to culture was not free from pedantry and dilettantism.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 5 » by Various
Synonyms for pedantry
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