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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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Pardon the pedantry of a Latin quotation, and believe me, I wonder now that I did not see how my physician avoided his medicine, but I did not, and I went on to spend myself in an endeavor as vain and senseless as any that pedantry has conceived. By degrees they sink into the category of the reactionary conservative Socialists depicted above, differing from these only by more systematic pedantry, and by their fanatical and superstitious belief in the miraculous effects of their social science. |
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