Definition for PED'ANT-RY

PED'ANT-RY, n. [Fr. pedanterie.]

Vain ostentation of learning; a boastful display of knowledge of any kind. Horace has enticed me into this pedantry of quotation. – Cowley. Pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. – Rambler.

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