pedant

• I remember I lingered somewhat long over the schooldays at Cowan Bridge and that I found the Brussels period dull; M. Heger struck me as a tiresome pedant, and I wondered how Charlotte could ever have put up with him. —  The Three Brontes
• Trissotin (doubtless a portrait in caricature from the Abbι Cotin) is the Tartufe of spurious culture; Vadius (a possible satire of Mιnage) is a pedant, arrogant and brutal. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• Nobody that ever lived was less of a pedant, academic don, or loud Sir Oracle. —  Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch
• He had in fact the temper of a pedant, a pedant's conceit, a pedant's love of theories, and a pedant's inability to bring his theories into any relation with actual facts. —  History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660
• I might likewise mention the law pedant, that is perpetually putting eases, repeating the transactions of Westminster Hall, wrangling with you upon the most indifferent circumstances of life, and not to be convinced of the distance of a place, or of the most trivial point in conversation, but by dint of argument. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I

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