pedantry

• Each of them was a plea for the extrication of the simple from the cumbrousness of elaborated pedantry, and for a return to nature from the unmeaning devices of false art. —  Rousseau (Volume 1 of 2)
• He would discard the petty successes of pedantry, and would seek a loftier greatness. —  Julian Home
• He was noted for his pedantry, and his odd whims about the education of his son Martīnus Scriblērus_, a man of capacity, who had read everything; but his judgment was worthless, and his taste perverted Arbuthnot, Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martin Scriblerus These “memoirs” were intended to be the first instalment[TN-162] of a general satire on the false taste in literature prevalent in the time of Pope. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
• He had learning without pedantry, and wit without ill-nature. —  The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
• His knowledge is a pedantry, and dead thistle, otherwise Much has been said and written about the sensuality of Mohammed's Religion; more than was just. —  Sacred Books of the East

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