Person obsessed with detail or process, often negatively perceived
Not to be confused with Pendant.
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"The Pedant" by caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson
A pedant (/ˈpɛd.ənt/PED-ent) is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism, accuracy and precision, or one who makes an ostentatious and arrogant show of learning.
show of learning. Look up pedant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The English language word pedant comes from the French pédant (used in 1566 in Darme...
2020. Retrieved 24 November 2021. Kamm, Oliver (12 December 2015). "The Pedant: The sheer usefulness of singular 'they' is obvious". The Times. Archived...
the comedy Le pédant joué takes place and whose principal, Jean Grangier would inspire the character of Granger, the pedant of Le pédant joué, but his...
Linguistic prescription, also called prescriptivism or prescriptive grammar, is the establishment of rules defining preferred usage of language. These...
to the murder he did in the 1970s as a teenager. His father, John was a pedant and an abusive man who beats Kennedy to keep things clean, neat and organised...
PlayStation Vita ports, an artbook, and the prequel game Fault: Silence the Pedant. Originally, Munisix had planned to handle the localization himself, but...
original on 2013-11-01. Retrieved 2013-10-30. "Adult video veteran turns porn pedant for new stick flick school". Mainichi Shimbun. 2003-06-11. Retrieved 2007-05-12...
"Michael had to do the pseudo-intellectual, the genuine intellectual, the pedant, and he came in and nailed it from the start". Sheen enjoyed playing "someone...
third editor, Naber, found him contemptible. Historians have seen him as a 'pedant and a bore', his letters offering neither the running political analysis...
courage to say as an author what he felt as a man. ... He was neither a pedant nor a bigot. ... In treating of men and manners, he spoke of them as he...
Linguistics Conference. Wales 1996, p. 125. Kamm, Oliver (12 December 2015). "The Pedant: The sheer usefulness of singular 'they' is obvious". The Times. Retrieved...
that "Gielgud dominates all with an unexpected caricature of a mincing pedant, his noble features blurred so as to mimic a fussed and fatuous egghead...
Classicists, Morris claimed that his unique perspective was as "a poet not a pedant". He also continued producing translations of Icelandic tales with Magnússon...
servant of Lucentio Vincentio – father of Lucentio Widow – wooed by Hortensio Pedant – pretends to be Vincentio Haberdasher Tailor Curtis – servant of Petruchio...
'stickler', and it is claimed that the popular meaning of the word as a 'pedant' originates from this usage. Cornish wrestling is a national sport of Cornwall...
ball of plasma in the sky, but human listeners are not (or not usually) pedants insistent on point-by-point factual accuracy. They want to know what the...
Vehicles Company Egyptian Light Transport Manufacturing Company (Egyptian NSU pedant) Ghabbour Group (Fuso, Hyundai and Volvo) MCV Corporate Group (a part of...
100% Performer 2001 I Love the 80s Guest 2003 Double Entry Judge 2004 The Pedants' Revolt Guest 2006–2007 Balderdash and Piffle Presenter 2007 Charlie Brooker's...
Middlemarch, who mistakes in her idealistic ardor, "a poor dry mummified pedant... as a sort of angel of vocation". Middlemarch is in part a Bildungsroman...
(2017). "Wilhelm Stuckart (1902–1953), Reich Interior Ministry, A Legal Pedant". In Jasch, Hans-Christian; Kreutzmüller, Christoph (eds.). The Participants:...
tempest of malignant passions," and referred to the President as a "repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite, and an unprincipled oppressor." Callender, already residing...
narrative to be the observances of, and a running commentary by, an anonymous pedant on Earwicker's dream in progress, who would interrupt the flow with his...
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