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单词 pedanticism
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pedanticismn.

Brit. /pᵻˈdantᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /pəˈdæn(t)əˌsɪz(ə)m/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pedantic adj., -ism suffix.
Etymology: < pedantic adj. + -ism suffix. Compare earlier pedantism n., pedantry n.
Pedantry; a piece of pedantry, a pedantic expression or idea.
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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).
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