Noun:

পণ্ডিতিপনা,

pedantry's Usage Examples:

Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder is in part characterized by a form of pedantry that is excessively concerned with the correct following of rules, procedures.

on principle (Das Kapital impresses him as "a monument of pretentious pedantry"), he argues that "we should understand and respect the professions and.

of satirical humour in Hannah Cowley's 1779 play Who's the Dupe?, for pedantry, provincial manners and unfashionable dress, in the character Gradus.

response to what came to be depicted by later whig historians as the "narrow pedantry" associated with medieval scholasticism.

and to distinguish between the tempters and the tempted; warns against pedantry in the pulpit; and recommends the reading of Johann Arndt's Vom wahren.

But by his later years, his name had become a by-word for foolish pedantry.

Cautiousness and ardent passion, dry pedantry and piety, morality and sensuality; simplicity and ostentation composed.

demonstrate that he was distinguished by qualities very different from the pedantry and conceit usually associated with his name.

Mattheson was a brilliant polemist and his theories on music are often full of pedantry and pseudo-erudition.

attempting to avoid the pathological extremes of prescription (valueless pedantry such as hypercorrection) while also making use of its helpful side (which.

Onslow's pedantry as Speaker also enhanced his unpopularity.

Bishop Butler's ‘Analogy’ displays such judgment and ‘learning without pedantry’ that it superseded all the previous editions.

In addition, in Cedillo, speaking Spanish was considered an act of pedantry and a symbol of social and economic relief.

[citation needed] This kind of pedantry is characteristic of Claudius and immediately identifies him as the speaker.

However, he had a "tendency toward pedantry", and sometimes treated learning as "an end unto itself".

his style can descend into almost unintelligible pretension and pedantry ("a pedantry which is gigantesque and almost incredible", in the words of George.

Synonyms:

ostentation; flash; fanfare;

Antonyms:

disappear; dullness; tasteful; linger;