Word Meanings - PEDANTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
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- PURISM
Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. "His political purism." De Quincey. The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly - AFFECTATIONIST
One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall. - AFFECTATION
1. An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. "An affectation of contempt." Macaulay. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty - HIGHFLYING
Extravagant in opinions or ambition. "Highflying, arbitrary kings." Dryden. - PEDANTRY
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. - EUPHUISM
An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction. - FINICALITY
The quality of being finical; finicalness. - INAFFECTATION
Freedom from affectation; naturalness.