pedanty

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noun

A group or clique of pedants.

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Meanings

nounpedanty (plural pedanties)

plural pedanties

  1. obsoleteA group or clique of pedants.

    [Y]ou cite them to appeare for certaine Paragogicall contempts, before a capricious Pædantie of hot-liver’d Grammarians.

    1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 6

Origin

Apparently from pedant + -y.

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