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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pedantry  \Ped"ant*ry\,  n.  [Cf.  F.  p['e]danterie.] 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pedantry 
  n  :  a  ostentatious  and  inappropriate  display  of  learning 




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