Sentence Examples:
Pedant formerly meant a schoolmaster.
Jumble was a preposterous pedant.
Knowledge in a pedant becomes impertinence.
A pedant is a precocious old man.
The coquette and the pedant are neighbors.
Some pedants imagine that I write in French.
To have been mated to that withered pedant!
To play the pedant; to use pedantic expressions.
Wits mingled with pedants, courtiers with poets.
To Roberto, Oswald appeared to be an insufferable pedant.
A concourse of pedants escorted him to his house.
To this age James is an awkward, ludicrous pedant.
Doctors are a lot of prejudiced pedants and hypocrites.
Let unemotional pedants speak as they stupidly will, Alicia.
The pedant still does the cause of education incalculable injury.
The pedant or the conceited person silently drifted away.
The botanist is not a discoverer; he is only a pedant.
Nietzsche is like a schoolboy whose teacher is an inefficient pedant.
The boy was silent, and looked at the pedant contemptuously.
They do not deserve the name of theologians but of pedants.
Happily Julius was ceasing to be a pedant, even in matters ecclesiastical.
The arrogant pedant does not communicate, but promulgates his knowledge.
Can you imagine a pedant, a scold, and a coquette in one woman?
The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.
"Always the pedant," he exclaimed, throwing his cap in my face.
The scholastic pedant does not see facts beyond his accustomed words.
What a paltry picture does Shakespeare draw of Cicero as a mere pedant!
This precocious little pedant died before he had completed his fifth year.
He deplored Shakespeare being the victim of pedants and a national institution.
Enthusiasts and pedants often made the society ludicrous by their aberrations.
The pedant's endeavors to make a philosopher of his child are sufficiently ludicrous.
He read in a mellow, deep voice, but it was the voice of a pedant.
It cannot be the pedant, or the conservative, or anything rash and irreverent.
He had neither the patience nor the tact for managing loquacious parliamentary pedants.
Fashion had banished the rigor of the pedant in favor of idyllic simplicity.
He was a pedant, and lectured the king on his duty like a schoolmaster.
Courtesies of pedants, rhetorical personifications, and the invective of maniacs is the prevailing tone.
Miser and pedant, he is but a shriveled parchment edition of his heartless, dead brother.
A gentleman who quoted Horace or Terence was considered in good company as a pompous pedant.
The peevish pedant treated the matter as he would have treated a rebellion at school.
He laughed, and justly ridiculed an animosity which pedants are so fond of keeping up.
I am really becoming, I hope not a pedant, but certainly an enthusiast about classical literature.
Moreover, he had the slow yet jerky way of speaking that characterizes the pedant.
It had become necessary to contradict this pedant who had become insufferable with his egotism.
He was drifting back into the dreamland of the pedant, but a few hours deserted.
Is everyone who writes on ethics, or attempts to teach it, either a pedant or a hypocrite?
Indeed, the ignorant peasant seemed to him humbler and more virtuous than the pompous pedant.
There was no room for the pedant, with his greed for unadorned and unemotional precision.
He is a hypocrite, a pedant, and a most unmitigated bore, with all his pretended virtues.
A few pedants may like botany better, but ordinary humanity is quite right in preferring flowers.
Yet that is the sort of treatment which many learned pedants call 'expounding the Bible!'
Here again the pedants under consideration exhibit the illogical perversity that makes the brain reel.
The "Pedant" and the "Country Squire" are both blockheads, and thus unfitted for rational society.
Meek surrender of mind and body to the dictation of pedants and old women and fools.
He never used him as a lay figure on which he might display the drapery of a pedant.
You called me a 'pedant' once before; to be told that I am superior, also, is most disquieting.
Said the rector, with the authority of the clergyman breaking through the crust of the pedant.
She shunned the stilted words of the pedant as she conversed to communicate thoughts and principles.
The main definition you could give of old Marquis Mirabeau is, that he was of the pedant species.
He was also a pedant; but pedantry should only call forth censure, when coupled with weakness.
Aristocratic pedants call everybody an adventurer who makes his fortune by his genius and his accomplishments.
Under the vulgar motley of the pedant lay many excellent qualities, among them intense devotion to friends.
Everything I do shows it is done by a gentleman; there is nothing of the pedant about my effusions.
Surly old pedants he would have none of, favoring young men on the score of their youth alone.
Through all these things the ill-dressed, coarse, ungainly pedant had struggled manfully up to eminence and command.
Now the admirers and opponents of Browning alike make him out to be a pedant rather than a poet.
Besides man's natural aversion to cruel acts, they thus incurred his still more universal distaste for pedants.
He was more a gentleman than his brother George, who was a pedant in politics, but less deceitful.
We should avoid the vexation and impertinence of pedants who affect to talk in a language not to be understood.
Where in this is the pompous pedant who is so commonly supposed to be the writer of Johnson's books?
Pitt's conversation, declared this paragon of pedants, she saw Minerva without the formal owl on her helmet.
He had the happy art of dilating on his own pursuits without being either a pedant or a bore.
He speaks French as pedants do Latin, to show his breeding, and most naturally where he is least understood.
A most arrogant, conceited pedant in politics; cannot endure the least contradiction in any of his visions or paradoxes.
His pedants are quite as tiresome as they would be in real life, if each successively held you by the button.
The great scholars were indeed far above the race of pedants; but the schoolmasters who adopted their ideal were not.
The word "pedant" was the latest epithet taken up by Romantic journalism to heap confusion on the Classical faction.
The early stages of this most wise and needful reform were met with much opposition by lawyers and pedants.
Just the place for a pedant to escape to, and live there through the winter with his musty books.'
A musty and limited pedant yellows himself a little among rolls and records, plunders a few libraries, and, lo!
The one was the labor of the pedant theorist, the other was rather the improvisation of the theater manager.
Then a long lazy lie on deck with Williams, learning Dutch from a distracting grammar by a pompous old pedant.
Authors did not write for society but for each other, and society in return looked upon them as uninteresting pedants.
For the old Hebrew seers were men dealing with the loftiest and deepest laws: the Rabbis were shallow pedants.
Well then, here is your man, a pedant and a fool, a stickler for little trifles, a very child for detail.
The impassioned pedant has written it in heavy prose smothering its brightness in the dull web of his own thought.
This is no rider from the sea on a great horse, but as ineffectual and contemptible a creature as the pedant, Rodney.
Yet this may do more to discredit him with the pedants than what seems to me dangerous credulity in larger questions.
An elderly pedant to interfere with the pretty whims of a viper when she wears the outer semblance of a fine woman!
"Quondam" was rather a pity, perhaps; it sounds pedantic, and the Warden was no pedant, unless he wanted to snub people.
Only the pedant would disown so desirable a tenant for the poor reason that the house has been rebuilt since his day.
Though a poor, gray nest, I could press it to my heart, with all its untidy little houses, and tedious old pedants.
With simple common sense and intercourse with people of refinement, a habit of mind is there obtained which, without comparison, forms a more accurate, judgment of things than the rusty attainments of the pedants.
Where the pedant would have referred and quoted and cross-referred, he went dashing on, throwing out ideas from his abundance and caring little if among his wealth were a few faults of fact or interpretation.
Capacity to write and speak several modern languages was very common, and there were many individuals in every city, neither professors nor pedants, who had made remarkable progress in science and classical literature.
Whatever may have been his meaning, finding fault is certainly the easiest task of knowledge, and commonly those men of good judgment, who are likewise of good and gentle dispositions, abandon this ungrateful province to the tyranny of pedants.
Nothing could more completely illustrate the absurdity of the fundamental theory of the foolish old pedants that poetry might be written by rule of thumb than the publication of a few of the songs in this old book.
Though educated under the greatest scholar of the age, and one who was a decided friend to popular liberty, James, in spite of the instructions of Buchanan, proved a pedant, and cowardice alone prevented him from becoming a tyrant.
In science, too, you are no Kepler or Linnaeus, and there is something satisfactory when pedants talk of orbits, planes, bulbs, or beetles, in being able to say that you have a big book at home that tells all about those things.
Darkness of mind, in every kind and variety, does to a really tragic extent abound: but of all the kinds of darkness, surely the Pedant darkness, which asserts and believes itself to be light, is the most formidable to mankind!