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单词 pedant
释义 ped·ant
\ˈpedənt\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle French pedant, from Italian pedante, perhaps from Latin paedagogant-, paedagogans, present participle of paedagogare to instruct, from paedagogus pedagogue
1. obsolete
 a. : a household tutor
 b. : a male schoolteacher
  < like a pedant that keeps a school in the church — Shakespeare >
2.
 a. : one who parades his learning especially book learning
  < a pompous pedant — T.B.Macaulay >
  < the polysyllabic obscurantist style of the … pedant — Marvin Lowenthal >
 b. : one who is uninspired, unimaginative, or narrowly academic or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge
  < some dusty college of pedants, their noses buried in … bibliographical data — Herbert Read >
  < a scholar, yet surely no pedant — Oliver Goldsmith >
 c. : a formalist or precisionist in teaching
  < the great musicians of the past were not pedants — Irving Babbitt >
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