单词 | pedanticism |
释义 | pedanticismn. Pedantry; a piece of pedantry, a pedantic expression or idea. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > instance of pedantism1656 pedantry1656 pragmatism1825 pedanticism1897 mandarinism1976 1848 Times 18 Oct. 3/3 With all its dry pedanticism and unwarrantable excursiveness, it was the best general history of India up to the present day. 1889 Portfolio 20 129/1 Perhaps, as Cuninghame suggests, Inigo's theory was simply an embodiment of some pedanticism of James I. 1897 Naturalist 270 Not so larmoyant..as the first-named pedanticism. 1907 Q. Rev. Jan. 217 They..freed literature from pedanticism. 1991 R. Jenkins Life at Centre x. 206 The others were more attracted by a combination of resistance to change, lawyers' pedanticism and opposition politics than by effective action against crime. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1848 |
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