Meaning of pedantess | Babel Free

Definitions

Female equivalent of pedant.

feminine, form-of, obsolete, rare

Examples

“Unfeeling pedantess, says I to myself; thou art no wife for me.”

“Why does not this pedantess wear⟳ the breeches?”

“We do not wish⟳ our boys and girls to become⟳ pedants. Well, then, we must not become⟳ pedants and pedantesses ourselves.”

“‘Dryden weighs poets in his virtuoso’s scales that will weigh⟳ to the hundredth part of a grain, as curiously as Juvenal’s lady pedantess—[…]’”

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