Noun
The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAsparagus was also corrupted in some places to "sparrow grass"; indeed, the Oxford English Dictionary quotes John Walker as having written in 1791 that "Sparrow-grass is so general that asparagus has an air of stiffness and pedantry". Source: Internet
He opposed pedantry, and ridiculed artificial grammar rules unwarranted by natural English usage, such as bans on ending a sentence with a preposition ; rules on the placement of the word only; and rules distinguishing between which and that. Source: Internet
The aim of the club was to satirise ignorance and pedantry in the form of the fictional scholar Martinus Scriblerus. Source: Internet
At risk of pedantry, the word "celiac" means "of, pertaining to, or located in the cavity of the abdomen". Source: Internet
There, he whiles away his spare time as an enthusiast of baseball, punk rock, English poetry, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, German beer, American whiskey and extreme pedantry. Source: Internet
Wine enthusiasts have an evil reputation for snobbery and pedantry that Paul’s post, I fear, perpetuates. Source: Internet