pedantryn.

Brit.

/ˈpɛdntri/, U.S.

/ˈpɛd(ə)ntri/

Forms: 1600s paedantry, 1600s pedanterie, 1600s pedantery, 1700s– pedantry.

Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian pedanteria.

Etymology: < Italian pedanteria (1556; compare also quot. a1586 at sense 2) < pedante pedant n. + -eria -ery suffix. Compare Middle French pedenterie (1560; French pédanterie), Spanish pedantería (1535–6).

1. The character, habit of mind, or practice of a pedant.

a. Mere academic learning, without judgement or discrimination; excessive reverence for or display of learning or technical knowledge; intellectual conceit.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun]

scholarism1588

pedantism1592

pedantry1612

scholasticism1797

bluestockingism1812

donnishness1835

donnism1859

pragmaticism1865

usherism1869

pragmatism1895

mandarinism1976

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > laboured or pedantic quality

periergia1550

pedantism1592

stiffness1638

pedantry1841

non-naturalism1895

1585 A. Munday tr. L. Pasqualigo Fedele & Fortunio ii. v. sig. Div I would I could meete with master Pedayntrye, To knowe what his maister saith to the chauntrye.]

1612 J. Donne Second Anniuersarie 27 in First Anniuersarie When wilt thou shake off this Pedantery, Of being taught by sense, and Fantasy?

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. vi. 24 A practise that savours much of Pedantery .

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 224. ⁋7 Pedantry proceeds from much Reading and little Understanding.

1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women II. vii. 36 That men are frighted at Female pedantry, is very certain.

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 159 The pedantry of mixing Greek and Latin terms in the vernacular language is ridiculed by Rabelais.

1878 H. James Watch & Ward v. 88 He was gentle without timidity, frank without arrogance, clever without pedantry.

1979 D. Thomas Swinburne x. 219 He was the..faded little poet, with an enthusiasm for books & pedantry which was..reminiscent of an eccentric don.

2003 Jrnl. News (Westchester County, N.Y.) (Nexis) 23 Nov. 4 e There's no showiness in his erudition, no pedantry in his wisdom, no ingratiation in his wit.

b. Excessive or undue concern for petty details; slavish adherence to formal precision, rules, or literal meaning.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > instance of > in matters of detail

pedantry1759

technicalism1808

1724 J. Swift Let. to Molesworth 4 The Pedantry of a Drapier in the Terms of his own Trade.]

1759 A. Smith Theory Moral Sentiments iii. 308 Tho' it may be aukward and pedantic..to affect too strict an adherence to the common rules of prudence or generosity, there is no pedantry in sticking fast by the rules of justice.

1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany III. 124 Even Erasmus, spite of the favour he enjoyed at court, found no mercy from monkish pedantry.

1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 119 He who slavishly adheres to rule displays pedantry at every turn.

1902 A. M. Fairbairn Philos. Christian Relig. ii. ii. 410 To require that every element in a figurative word be found again in the reality it denotes, is not exegesis but pedantry.

1940 Notes & Queries 179 278/1 The shell fragments which are at present descending upon its devoted head are unhesitatingly referred to by the public as ‘shrapnel’ and the correct expression, ‘shell fragments’, has begun to verge on pedantry.

2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life i. iii. 53 The cladists' refusal to recognize any group as a formal taxon unless it is a true clade strikes many as pedantry.

2. As a count noun: an instance of pedantic behaviour; a pedantic form of expression.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > instance of

pedantism1656

pedantry1656

pragmatism1825

pedanticism1897

mandarinism1976

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > laboured or pedantic quality > instances

pedantry1656

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. B1^v Skill of gouernment, was but a Pedanteria in comparison.]

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Pedanteries, pedantick humors, phrase affectings, Inkhorn terms. Br.

1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. xxv. 133 The narrow pedantries of monastic erudition.

1779 Ann. Reg. 1778 Characters 23/2 Would Chaucer's poems have been the delight of those courts in which he lived, had they been filled with unintelligible pedantries?

1850 E. Johnson Life, Health, & Dis. Pref. p. xi I have avoided all professional pedantries and learned technicalities, whenever it could be done consistently with perspicuity.

a1859 L. Hunt Poet. Wks. (1860) 56 To be so nice, and stand, profess'd, All truth, was held a pedantry at best.

1909 C. Thomas Hist. German Lit. xiii. 235 It is shown that the wonderful rules of the haute tragédie are in good part mere pedantries, based on a misunderstanding of Aristotle.

2003 Southland (N.Z.) Times 21 Oct. 4 Developers..complain about officious bureaucrats and their many pedantries.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pedantry
释义	pedantryn. Brit. /ˈpɛdntri/, U.S. /ˈpɛd(ə)ntri/ Forms: 1600s paedantry, 1600s pedanterie, 1600s pedantery, 1700s– pedantry. Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian pedanteria. Etymology: < Italian pedanteria (1556; compare also quot. a1586 at sense 2) < pedante pedant n. + -eria -ery suffix. Compare Middle French pedenterie (1560; French pédanterie), Spanish pedantería (1535–6). 1. The character, habit of mind, or practice of a pedant. a. Mere academic learning, without judgement or discrimination; excessive reverence for or display of learning or technical knowledge; intellectual conceit. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] scholarism1588 pedantism1592 pedantry1612 scholasticism1797 bluestockingism1812 donnishness1835 donnism1859 pragmaticism1865 usherism1869 pragmatism1895 mandarinism1976 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > laboured or pedantic quality periergia1550 pedantism1592 stiffness1638 pedantry1841 non-naturalism1895 1585 A. Munday tr. L. Pasqualigo Fedele & Fortunio ii. v. sig. Div I would I could meete with master Pedayntrye, To knowe what his maister saith to the chauntrye.] 1612 J. Donne Second Anniuersarie 27 in First Anniuersarie When wilt thou shake off this Pedantery, Of being taught by sense, and Fantasy? 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. vi. 24 A practise that savours much of Pedantery . View more context for this quotation 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 224. ⁋7 Pedantry proceeds from much Reading and little Understanding. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women II. vii. 36 That men are frighted at Female pedantry, is very certain. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 159 The pedantry of mixing Greek and Latin terms in the vernacular language is ridiculed by Rabelais. 1878 H. James Watch & Ward v. 88 He was gentle without timidity, frank without arrogance, clever without pedantry. 1979 D. Thomas Swinburne x. 219 He was the..faded little poet, with an enthusiasm for books & pedantry which was..reminiscent of an eccentric don. 2003 Jrnl. News (Westchester County, N.Y.) (Nexis) 23 Nov. 4 e There's no showiness in his erudition, no pedantry in his wisdom, no ingratiation in his wit. b. Excessive or undue concern for petty details; slavish adherence to formal precision, rules, or literal meaning. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > instance of > in matters of detail pedantry1759 technicalism1808 1724 J. Swift Let. to Molesworth 4 The Pedantry of a Drapier in the Terms of his own Trade.] 1759 A. Smith Theory Moral Sentiments iii. 308 Tho' it may be aukward and pedantic..to affect too strict an adherence to the common rules of prudence or generosity, there is no pedantry in sticking fast by the rules of justice. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany III. 124 Even Erasmus, spite of the favour he enjoyed at court, found no mercy from monkish pedantry. 1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 119 He who slavishly adheres to rule displays pedantry at every turn. 1902 A. M. Fairbairn Philos. Christian Relig. ii. ii. 410 To require that every element in a figurative word be found again in the reality it denotes, is not exegesis but pedantry. 1940 Notes & Queries 179 278/1 The shell fragments which are at present descending upon its devoted head are unhesitatingly referred to by the public as ‘shrapnel’ and the correct expression, ‘shell fragments’, has begun to verge on pedantry. 2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life i. iii. 53 The cladists' refusal to recognize any group as a formal taxon unless it is a true clade strikes many as pedantry. 2. As a count noun: an instance of pedantic behaviour; a pedantic form of expression. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > instance of pedantism1656 pedantry1656 pragmatism1825 pedanticism1897 mandarinism1976 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > laboured or pedantic quality > instances pedantry1656 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. B1^v Skill of gouernment, was but a Pedanteria in comparison.] 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Pedanteries, pedantick humors, phrase affectings, Inkhorn terms. Br. 1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. xxv. 133 The narrow pedantries of monastic erudition. 1779 Ann. Reg. 1778 Characters 23/2 Would Chaucer's poems have been the delight of those courts in which he lived, had they been filled with unintelligible pedantries? 1850 E. Johnson Life, Health, & Dis. Pref. p. xi I have avoided all professional pedantries and learned technicalities, whenever it could be done consistently with perspicuity. a1859 L. Hunt Poet. Wks. (1860) 56 To be so nice, and stand, profess'd, All truth, was held a pedantry at best. 1909 C. Thomas Hist. German Lit. xiii. 235 It is shown that the wonderful rules of the haute tragédie are in good part mere pedantries, based on a misunderstanding of Aristotle. 2003 Southland (N.Z.) Times 21 Oct. 4 Developers..complain about officious bureaucrats and their many pedantries. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1612
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