1500-1600Frenchpédant, from Italianpedante, perhaps from Latinpaedagogus; ➔ PEDAGOGY
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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
It is the work of a pedant, and shows no originality.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
A right little pedant she can be, when it comes to an intellectual argument.
Anyway, Oliver's a pedant.
He's a great pedant, Oliver.
He claims that he was a little pedant, even as early as the age of five.
True pedants add the proviso that an edge can not also be a node.
someone who pays too much attention to rules or to small unimportant details, especially someone who criticizes other people in an extremely annoying way: ‘That’s not exactly what it means.’ ‘Pedant.’—pedantry noun [uncountable]