pedantry

1. (countable, uncountable)An excessive attention to detail or rules.

   Pedanterie

   педанти́чностьpedantíčnostʹ, педанти́змpedantízm

2. An excessive attention to detail or rules.

   (countable, uncountable)An instance of such behaviour.

   I don’t want to listen to your pedantries anymore.

3. (countable, uncountable)An overly ambitious display of learning.

   Pedanterie

   an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning

1. This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

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2. Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

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3. It's more productive to concede a point of pedantry than to spend all day arguing about it.

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