Others thought he was a pedant because of his attention to detail. From LearnThat.org.
In Shakespeare's day, a pedant was a male schoolteacher. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
I might likewise mention the law pedant, that is perpetually putting eases, repeating the transactions of Westminster. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I] Reference
My inner pedant is clearly out of hand today. From Wordnik.com. [Real-Time Book Blogging! « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
It was the first time I’d heard that word pedant spoken. From Wordnik.com. [Closing Time] Reference
The Abbe Desorges, a former Professor of Theology, stigmatized Darwin as a "pedant," and evolution as "gloomy". From Wordnik.com. [A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom] Reference
I know that he is very gentlemanlike, and is neither a coxcomb nor a pedant, which is refreshing in these days. ". From Wordnik.com. [Valerie] Reference
You may think me a "pedant," if you like, but I would disagree when response like yours are made, because such details do matter. From Wordnik.com. [The American Spectator] Reference
Instead of learned, he's called pedant. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
The botanist is not a discoverer; he is only a pedant. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860] Reference
I should become a musical pedant, or a masculine artist. '. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
OK, I'm a pedant at heart, but, watch the grammar and syntax. From Wordnik.com. [Penn: Pennsylvania Will Show That Obama "Really Can't Win The General Election"] Reference
That makes Bierce sound like a caricature of a humorless pedant. From Wordnik.com. ['Equation,' 'Gingerly' And Other Linguistic Pet Peeves] Reference
Delighted to catch out the pedant in an error, I bestirred myself. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
Dugald Dalgetty, soldier of fortune and pedant of Marischal College. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
Dunciad; a war waged by genius upon the fool, the pedant, and the fribble. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
His voice was husky -- his manners chilling -- his converse that of a pedant. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
Moreover, he had the slow yet jerky way of speaking that characterizes the pedant. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The pedant within the playwright was heavy-handed, and besides, the play's the thing. From Wordnik.com. [Epic Theatre Travels Into Past, Present and Future] Reference
"I shall always be so great a pedant as to call a man of no learning a man of no education.". From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference
Although the word (intellectual) peasant (as opposed to pedant) would have been equally descriptive. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
It is "Lafayette -- thin, constitutional pedant; clear, thin, inflexible, as water turned to thin ice.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
Clinton was portrayed in many press accounts as a raffish but engaging survivor, Gore as a bumbling pedant. From Wordnik.com. [Caught In Clinton's Shadow] Reference
Only the stranger does not express himself in that way, but says, "What an admirable pedant he is, to be sure.". From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
It seems remarkable that this financial pedant didn't want to know how his own party was dealing with this issue. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Too many of his portraits give the impression of a sour, supercilious pedant; but the finest of them all -- that by. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
So Sophomore, being in morals a pedant and in intellect a bully, accused me of appropriating the book, and offered me. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
He had no difficulty in obtaining from James, as great a pedant as himself, a grant of Acadia, which he named Nova Scotia. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
A pedant might object that just the same could be said of a really bad artist — as it were, ‘sui generis, thank goodness’. From Wordnik.com. [Fiery genius] Reference
That loquacious pedant, the Dottore, was taken from the lawyers and the physicians, babbling false Latin in the dialect of learned. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Pantomime] Reference
There is indeed a mature wisdom and patience in Amelia such as none but a pedant could demand of her enchanting younger sister Sophia. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference
King Crimson is led by Robert Fripp, an owlish little pedant of whom it was once said, "Rock music's gain is the field of economics 'loss.". From Wordnik.com. [Madonna: Zero to 90's] Reference
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