pedancy

Definitions

Pedantry; pedanticness.

nonstandard, uncountable

Examples

“It was Dr. Newcombe who answered and his word had a studied pedancy as if he was addressing a classroom.”

“From there they were taken down, carted off to whichever State Penitentiary and assigned their own⟳ little cube to sit⟳ in and stew, while a barrage of courts and lawyers fought over deadlines and appeals and legal pedancy and the whole process⟳ ground on almost exactly as it always had before.”

“Also, for the sake of pedancy, instead of the same R we ought to use⟳ different symbols in (1) and (2), but this is unlikely to cause difficulty.”

“To take⟳ such expressions as literal statements of fact runs so counter to the experience⟳ of Christians from day one as to undermine any belief in them. A literary pedancy makes such biblical language less credible, not more credible.”

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