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Pedantry Blimber, Cornelia “dry and sandy with working in the graves of deceased languages.” [Br. Lit.: Dombey and Son] dull pedant; dreary scholar who marries Dorothea. [Br. Lit.: Middlemarch] erudite bookworm. [Br. Lit.: The Caxtons] pedantic master of Gradgrind’s school. [Br. Lit.: Hard Times] taxonomically talented servant of Prof. Aronnax. [Fr. Lit.: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] garrulous pedant. [Br. Lit.: A Legend of Montrose] pedantic Welsh captain and know-it-all. [Br. Lit.: Henry V] shameless pedagogue-schoolmaster. [Br. Lit.: Love’s Labour’s Lost] old-fashioned, donnish scholar. [Br. Lit.: Guy Mannering] learned fool. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 909] selfish and ill-humored clerical pedagogue. [Br. Lit.: Tom Jones] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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