Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - pedant
Pedant
pedant
n. 1 a person who insists on strict adherence to formal rules or literal meaning at the expense of a wider view. 2 a person who rates academic learning or technical knowledge above everything. 3 a person who is obsessed by a theory; a doctrinaire. Derivatives pedantic adj. pedantically adv. pedantize v.intr. & tr. (also -ise). pedantry n. (pl. -ies). Etymology: F p{eacute}dant f. It. pedante: app. formed as PEDAGOGUE
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noun Etymology: Middle French, from Italian ~e Date: 1588 a male schoolteacher, 2. one who makes a show of knowledge, one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge, a formalist or precisionist in teaching ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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