PED'ANTRY, noun Vain ostentation of learning; a boastful display of knowledge of any kind.
Horace has enticed me into this pedantry of quotation.
Pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning.
Content
Rights and sources
Review source, license and attribution information for this content.
Content
Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.