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pedanties

pedanties is the plural of pedanty.

Meaning of pedanty

Noun

pedanty (plural pedanties)

  1. (obsolete) A group or clique of pedants.
    • [Y]ou cite them to appeare for certaine Paragogicall contempts, before a capricious Pædantie of hot-liver’d Grammarians.1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 6

Questions about pedanties

What is pedanties the plural of?
Pedanties is the plural of pedanty.

Words near pedanties in the dictionary

  1. pedanticizing
  2. pedantick
  3. pedanticly
  4. pedanticness
  5. pedantics
  6. pedanties
  7. pedanting
  8. pedantise
  9. pedantised
  10. pedantises
  11. pedantising

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