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The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.

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  1. n. The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.
  2. n. an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
  3. 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.
  4. The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation oflearning. "This pedantry of quotation." Cowley.'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. Sir T. Browne.
  5. n:100 n. an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning