PEDANT in a Sentence
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11 example sentences for PEDANT, such as:
1. But I have been pedantically exact, as you call it.
2. This young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant.
3. Her insistence that the book be memorized marked the teacher as a pedant rather than a scholar.
2. This young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant.
3. Her insistence that the book be memorized marked the teacher as a pedant rather than a scholar.
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Meanings and Examples of PEDANT
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pedant
n. one who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
Classic Sentence:
1 This young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant.
2 Here is none of your heavy-sides, a student who studies, a greenhorn pedant, strong on letters, theology, science, and sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
3 I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will; unless it were that hide-bound pedant, Lanyon, at what he called my scientific heresies.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
4 He was a pedant, to the most extreme point, the greatest pedant I had met on earth, and with that had a vanity only befitting Alexander of Macedon.
5 But I have been pedantically exact, as you call it.
6 Perhaps it need not be done so pedantically, thought Nicholas, or even done at all, but this untiring, continual spiritual effort of which the sole aim was the children's moral welfare delighted him.
7 He was continually traveling through the three provinces entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the minutest details himself.
8 Dessalles, the tutor he had brought from Switzerland, was wearing a coat of Russian cut and talking broken Russian to the servants, but was still the same narrowly intelligent, conscientious, and pedantic preceptor.
9 Heron made a poor attempt to imitate for his friend Wallis the rector's pedantic bass and then, laughing at his failure, asked Stephen to do it.
Example Sentence:
1 Her insistence that the book be memorized marked the teacher as a pedant rather than a scholar.
2 Leavening his decisions with humorous, down-to-earth anecdotes, Judge Walker was not at all the pedantic legal scholar.