Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being pernickety.
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- noun The state or condition of being
pernickety .
Etymologies
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pernickety + -ness
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Peter Harvey, linguist: A pernicketiness of pedants
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The position brought him nearer the jury and the witness-box and farther from Counsel, and the change was probably pure pernicketiness and the desire to break the symmetry of the design.
Flowers for the Judge Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1934
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