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Definition of pedant:

  • (noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

Sentence Examples:

These may have been pedants, but they were scholars, and qualified to impart an excellent education.

One can imagine some pedant of a generation or two ago shaking his head over such a suggestion.

Her revelations might have found more value in the eyes of pedants had she been more obscure.

Abroad and here, traitors and some pedants on formulas make a noise concerning the violation of formulas.

The pedant neither approves nor understands me; and the better teacher says himself: enough!

In that event, say some pedants, he must confine himself to treatises of the accepted form.

Never take the judgment, Williams, upon such a subject, of a clerical pedant or a Westminster justice.

The pedant and the tyrant were loudly discussing the respective merits of tragedy and comedy.

That was enough for the uniformed pedants who tried her, and for their civilian subordinates.

This appears to me more the language of narrow-minded pedants than of practical men of the world.

She rejected fine gentlemen because they were not pedants, and pedants because they were not fine gentlemen.

He consoles himself with the reflection that he is not becoming a pedant or a careless liver.

My dear doctor, a learned pedant who laughs at the possible comes very near being an idiot.

For the pedant to imitate is enough of itself; to him the suitability of the model is immaterial.

The Romantics are young men, and the Classics are pedants; the Romantics will gain the day.

He would be only a pedant who would take nothing because he could not get everything at once.

Where are those ignorant fellows, those pedants, those ill-bred men that did not wait for me?

If you cling to the strict uses of words, there is a greater connection between pedant and fool.

Nor yet was he a pedant; which word might, perhaps, more nearly have expressed his cousin's meaning.

The English are pedants, as Goethe saw; they think little of literary men, or of merely spiritual achievements.

It is by seeing or fancying himself wiser than those around him, that the pedant is puffed up.

In active life, however, no men could be more perfectly free from the faults of mere theorists and pedants.

It provides the sharpest possible contrast with everyday life, and jerks the pedant out of his groove.

Some writers, usually pedants, imagine that they can supply, by the labors of industry, the deficiencies of nature.

How clumsy and rude is the most learned pedant in comparison with the refinement of this delicate organization!

I was heartily tired of the classical pedant; but there are pedants, ma'am, in all situations and professions.

The difference in results, though counted vast by the pedant, in truth exists not save in the imagination.

I said at the beginning of this that the Pedant was food for laughter, rather than for anger.

This "learned pedant," as she had called him this very morning, was revealing himself in strange ways.

"You are a pedant, and I trust the Muses will revenge themselves upon you this night," said Joseph, angrily.

Poor Laud seems to me to have been weak and ill-starred, not dishonest an unfortunate Pedant rather than anything worse.

All this science, however, did not render him a pedant, nor destroy his ease of manner in society.

After a while, too, the pedants, according to their wont, began quarrelling about their accents and their recessions.

The young man smiled at the pedant's idolatry of facts, and seized the vital point in every lesson.

Among us, a scholar is almost another name for a pedant or a clown: it is not so with them.

This would have satisfied the people, who were only anxious to score off the troublesome philosopher and pedant.

For this one phrase this pedant, who has otherwise rightly deserved oblivion, has some claim to be remembered.

A pedant among men of learning and sense, is like an ignorant servant giving an account of a polite conversation.

Pedants, who think themselves philosophers, ask why a woman should blush when she is conscious of no crime.

Mr Eyre thinks all the ladies will be pedants, and when you have been there, you will think so too.

James I. was, by universal consent, one of the meanest and most worthless pedants that ever wore a crown.

He who is not in some measure a pedant, though he may be a wise, cannot be a very happy man.

The pedant may plant his heel on the perennial flower; but it will spring up again as vigorous as ever.

He had nothing but disgust for the common people and the sort of scholars (pedants) whom they admired.

Even those dry pedants who think that ethics depend on economics must admit that economics depend on existence.

He had afterwards a pleasant chat with Freeman, 'not a bad fellow at all,' though obviously a 'terrible pedant.'

His wife was a cold, hard pedant, who was incapable of responding to the transports of his ardent soul.

Then the pedants got after me, said I didn't conform to academic formulas, advised me to steep myself in tradition.

They wrote like pedants, and pagans; those who could not write their love in verse, diffused themselves in prose.

I tried to ignore you, as pedants always do try to ignore any fact they cannot fit into their pet system.

He was besides a very honest man, of excellent breeding, simple, very disinterested, and without anything of the pedant.

Such modification, though it may appear to the pedant to be corruption, is evolution to the philosopher and man of sense.

By that time his works had already received sufficient recognition to command the most careful consideration even from pedants.

I may be eccentric, but I'm a lot saner than those pedants who claim the trip can't be made.

Nevertheless, I am not vain of my attainments; and that, at all events, is an advantage I have over your learned pedants.

A pedant for routine, his eye, when it came to any kind of disorder or novelty of arrangement, was like a gun.

The way to find a story is to look for a story, forgetting all that pedants have written and failures practiced.

Moreover, they are fit for the people of the land, and not only for Scribes and scholars and pedants.

His personal character was that of a most delightful companion, a man of learning and deeply read, but no pedant.

And last night I saw you in my dreams: you treated me as a pedant, and threw your cap in my face.

Now, when an educated man is not a pedant he can in discoursing about nothing at all exert a very palpable influence.

As there were no indications of his ever becoming a scholar, the pedants of the establishment were inclined to think him stupid.

On my word, Matilda, I believe he nurses his high opinion of this most awkward of all pedants upon a similar principle.

Only the stranger does not express himself in that way, but says, "What an admirable pedant he is, to be sure."

He would seem to himself a ridiculous pedant if he tried to talk logic to the woodland birds, and reason to the waterfalls.

The poet achieves a triumph where the pedant only suffers a defeat; and yet the aim of both was almost identical.

Aristotle is represented with a hideous exterior, face and body lean, hair neglected, and the air of a pedant exhausted by study.

Aristotle is represented with a hideous exterior, face and body lean, hair neglected, and the air of a pedant exhausted by study.

Though he was no pedant, he dearly loved to get in a slap against the ignorant whom we have always with us.

He seemed to them some sort of wise pedant; they did not need him and did not seek his society, he avoided them.

Several frock-coated pedants were smoking innumerable cigarettes and deceiving themselves into the notion that they were at work arranging the books.

When he was accused of having made a pedant of him, he replied, "That is the best thing I could make of him."

Even to conceive the capture of this stronghold seemed in itself evidence of genius; no mere pedant in warfare could have had the conception.

The Queen found this sort of humor very much to her taste, and said that no pedant should ever be her friend.

It had now become a matter of necessity to confer on Boisterous the Ghost's part, and on the Pedant that of the King.

The great Frederick was wont to cry, "I commence by taking; afterward I shall always have pedants enough to establish my rights."

Nobody calls Mantegna a pedant nowadays; yet one might say against him most of the things that have been said against Poussin.

She began at nine years old, for I have remarked that it is not learning much, but learning late, which makes pedants.

You will perhaps think me a cowardly, narrow-minded pedant; but you asked my opinion, and I am justified in giving it to you fully.

I begin by seizing what I want; there are plenty of pedants in my realm who can prove my right to it.

Therefore, the pedant, with his general maxims, almost always misses the mark in life, shows himself to be foolish, awkward, useless.

What took place in their minds, and how their several characters were constituted, the school pedants did not understand and appreciate.

Cautious discussions that respect diplomatic red tape interest patriotic pedants but bore personalities who are concerned with bigger things than national policies.

They thought him an eccentric sort of pedant, and they made no advances towards him, being able to do very well without him.

And these Mystical thinkers are as precise and as liable to become the mere pedants of a system, as any follower of Kant or Comte.

She had expected to meet a self-important pedant; instead of that she found a man who seemed rather ashamed of his solemn position.

The amusing absurdity of this whim of a pedant may serve to remind us how universal is now the reign of prose fiction.

And for this reason pedants are quivering with scorn, so that their very souls, being so dry, crack if his name is mentioned.

The logical pedant who imagines that men cannot possibly act on inconsistent and even contradictory motives only betrays his ignorance of life.

Why should I take my useful life down into the darkness of death in order to save pedants like you, or to spare a woman's feelings?

On the other hand, he, whoever he is, who acts on one maxim, is a pedant and spoils things for himself and others.

She married that narrow-minded, bad-hearted pedant, Sir Edward Coke, and did her best to make him as miserable as he deserved to be.

I found my old master to be a poor ignorant pedant; and, in short, the whole scene to be extremely changed for the worse.

Who but a pedant could have conceived the dull fancy of forming a comedy, of five acts, on the subject of marrying the Arts!

From what I have heard, James was a heavy pedant, a rank coward, essentially not a man to be popular among a spirited people.

The new leaders are not sure of their feet, and these old pedants have taken their chance of getting back their old power.

The pedant wishes to apply a code of Median rigidity to correct the barbarous freedom of a language to which scholarship has never applied itself.

I feel that I am not wholly safe from danger of repeating the experience of this well-meaning pedant if I attempt to give a definition of literature.

Then, like a little pedant as she was, she began to unfold all that she knew about the old fortress and its history.

He threw the animal in a rage on the floor; she snatches it up again, calls Sir Harry a sour pedant, without good nature or good manners.