pedant
noun
- a person who puts unnecessary stress on minor or trivial points of learning, displaying a scholarship lacking in judgment or sense of proportion
- a narrow-minded teacher who insists on exact adherence to a set of arbitrary rules
- Obsolete a schoolmaster
See pedant in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(pĕdˈnt)
noun- One who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules.
- One who exhibits one's learning or scholarship ostentatiously.
- Obsolete A schoolmaster.
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