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Webster 1913 Edition

Pedantry

Ped′ant-ry

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
pédanterie
.]
The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.
“This pedantry of quotation.”
Cowley.
’T is a practice that savors much of
pedantry
.
Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pedantry

PED'ANTRY

,
Noun.
Vain ostentation of learning; a boastful display of knowledge of any kind.
Horace has enticed me into this pedantry of quotation.
Pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning.

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