pedancy

pedancy noun: pedantry; pedanticness.

Noun

pedancy (uncountable)

(nonstandard) Pedantry; pedanticness.
- It was Dr. Newcombe who answered and his word had a studied pedancy as if he was addressing a classroom.2008, Max Afford, The Sheep and the Wolves, page 97
- From there they were taken down, carted off to whichever State Penitentiary and assigned their own little cube to sit in and stew, while a barrage of courts and lawyers fought over deadlines and appeals and legal pedancy and the whole process ground on almost exactly as it always had before.2009, Joz Rhodes, The Dark Alternative, →ISBN, page 122

Also, for the sake of pedancy, instead of the same R we ought to use different symbols in (1) and (2), but this is unlikely to cause difficulty.2013, G. Kampis, Self-Modifying Systems in Biology and Cognitive Science, →ISBN:
A literary pedancy makes such biblical language less credible, not more credible.2013, James D. G. Dunn, Four Views on the Role of Works at the Final Judgment, Zondervan, →ISBN, pages 58–59:

From pedant + -cy.

What does pedancy mean?: Pedancy means pedantry; pedanticness.
How do you use pedancy in a sentence?: Also, for the sake of pedancy, instead of the same R we ought to use different symbols in (1) and (2), but this is unlikely to cause difficulty.
What part of speech is pedancy?: Pedancy is a noun.

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