Английский Этимологический словарь - pedant
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~ n someone who pays too much attention to rules and details (She is something of a pedant when it comes to intellectual argument.) - pedantry n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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(pedants) If you say that someone is a pedant, you mean that they are too concerned with unimportant details or traditional rules, especially in connection with academic subjects. I am no pedant and avoid being dogmatic concerning English grammar and expression. N-COUNT c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Etymology: Middle French, from Italian ~e Date: 1588 1. obsolete a male schoolteacher 2. a. one who makes a show of knowledge b. one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge c. a formalist or precisionist in teaching ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a person who insists on strict adherence to formal rules or literal meaning at the expense of a wider view. 2 a person who rates academic learning or technical knowledge above everything. 3 a person who is obsessed by a theory; a doctrinaire. Derivatives pedantic adj. pedantically adv. pedantize v.intr. & tr. (also -ise). pedantry n. (pl. -ies). Etymology: F p{eacute}dant f. It. pedante: app. formed as PEDAGOGUE ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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