Definition of "pedantry" [ped•ant•ry]

• Pedantic attention to detail or rules. (noun)
• An instance of pedantic behavior. (noun)
• The habit of mind or manner characteristic of a pedant. (noun)

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• "Yet this monarch of all things detested pedantry, either as it shows itself in the mere form of Greek and Latin, or in ostentatious book-learning, or in the affectation of words of remote signification: these are the only points of view in which I have been taught to consider the meaning of the term pedantry, which is very indefinite, and always a relative one."
• "Pedant - first rule of pedantry is to make sure that your post is perfect and to understand that the spellchecker is, like us all, fallible."
• "So, thank goodness for the modest, the didactic, the people who secretly revel in pedantry and exactitude."