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pedanty

pedanty noun: a group or clique of pedants.

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

Forms of pedanty

pluralpedanties

Origin of pedanty

Apparently from pedant + -y.

Questions about pedanty

What does pedanty mean?
Pedanty means a group or clique of pedants.
What part of speech is pedanty?
Pedanty is a noun.
What is the plural of pedanty?
The plural of pedanty is pedanties.

Words near pedanty in the dictionary

  1. pedantocratic
  2. pedantocrats
  3. pedantries
  4. pedantry
  5. pedants
  6. pedanty
  7. pedarian
  8. pedarians
  9. pedaries
  10. pedary
  11. pedas

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