pedanty
English
Etymology
Apparently from pedant + -y.[1]
Noun
pedanty (plural pedanties)
- (obsolete) A group or clique of pedants.
- 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 6:
- [Y]ou cite them to appeare for certaine Paragogicall contempts, before a capricious Pædantie of hot-liver’d Grammarians.
References
- ^ “pedanty, n.3”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- “pedanty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.