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Definition of Pedant
Pedant
A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.

One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.

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Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
George Orwell

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
George Weinberg

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
Johann Kaspar Lavater



Pedant Translations
pedant in German is Pedant


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