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pedant definition

ped·ant (ped'nt)

noun

  1. a person who puts unnecessary stress on minor or trivial points of learning, displaying a scholarship lacking in judgment or sense of proportion
  2. a narrow-minded teacher who insists on exact adherence to a set of arbitrary rules
  3. Obsolete a schoolmaster

Etymology: Fr pédant, pedant, schoolmaster < It pedante, ult. < Gr paidagōgos: see pedagogue

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