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pedanticly

pedanticly is the obsolete form of pedantically.

Meaning of pedantically

Adverb

pedantically (comparative more pedantically, superlative most pedantically)

  1. In a pedantic manner.
    • ‘I think you might have warned me,’ returned the other with a touch of sullenness. ‘But I have been pedantically exact, as you call it. The fellow had a key; and what’s more, he has it still. I saw him use it, not a week ago.’1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Story of the Door”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 13
    Synonyms:
    pedantly

Forms of pedanticly

comparativemore pedanticly
superlativemost pedanticly

Origin of pedanticly

From pedantic + -ly.

Questions about pedanticly

What is pedanticly the obsolete form of?
Pedanticly is the obsolete form of pedantically.

Words near pedanticly in the dictionary

  1. pedanticize
  2. pedanticized
  3. pedanticizes
  4. pedanticizing
  5. pedantick
  6. pedanticly
  7. pedanticness
  8. pedantics
  9. pedanties
  10. pedanting
  11. pedantise

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