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Wat (wie) is PEDANT - definitie

PERSONALITY TYPE; PERSON OBSESSED WITH DETAIL OR PROCESS, OFTEN NEGATIVELY PERCEIVED
Pedantry; Pedantic; Pædant; Pédant; Pedants; Pædants; Pédants; Paedant; Paedants; Pedantries; Pedanticism; Pedanthood
  • "The Pedant" by caricaturist [[Thomas Rowlandson]]

pedant         
n.
1.
Schoolmaster, pedagogue.
2.
Vain scholar, conceited scholar, ostentatious man of learning.
pedant         
(pedants)
If you say that someone is a pedant, you mean that they are too concerned with unimportant details or traditional rules, especially in connection with academic subjects.
I am no pedant and avoid being dogmatic concerning English grammar and expression.
N-COUNT [disapproval]
pedant         
['p?d(?)nt]
¦ noun a person who is excessively concerned with minor detail or with displaying technical knowledge.
Derivatives
pedantry noun
Origin
C16: from Fr. pedant, from Ital. pedante, perh. from the first element of L. paedogogus (see pedagogue).

Wikipedia

Pedant

A pedant ( PED-ent) is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism, accuracy and precision, or one who makes an ostentatious and arrogant show of learning.

Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor PEDANT
1. Yet with his poker face and slow, even diction, Ahsan comes across as a pedant, not a revolutionary.
2. It is like a linguistic pedant who will only acknowledge you if you speak the Queen‘s English.
3. The biggest, most foreboding presence in the book is his late father, a policeman, who was a bully and a pedant.
4. In contrast to the charismatic bin Laden, who speaks in poetic Arabic and projects the image of a statesman, Zawahiri is an uncompromising pedant who tailors his messages to other radicals.
5. Smith had opened his case in a lengthy speech, remarked, ‘I have read your case, Mr Smith, and am no wiser now than I was when I started.’ ‘Possibly not, My Lord, but far better informed.’ In this case the old pedant conveyed neither light nor information.