What's the difference between pedantry and pedanty?

Pedantry


Definition:

  • (n.) The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The author also puts on record his objection to the pedantry that surrounds the use of the analysis by intentions-to-treat method.
  • (2) Not only is The Ladykillers one of Britain's best-loved films, but the cast of the 1955 production – Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers , Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom and Danny Green – did include one or two actors that modern film programmes like to wrongly refer to as "legends", even if (pedantry aside) you know what they mean.
  • (3) The authors present examples of words from contemporary languages, which are universally accepted and in which the semantic purity of the native language could lead to pedantry and vagueness.
  • (4) I’ll be back soon with more build up and team news, but for now get your thoughts, predictions and pedantry coming in to @KidWeil or graham.parker.freelance@guardiannews.com and to further whet your appetite, here’s what happened when these sides last met, during the semi-final round of World Cup qualifiers last September - have we mentioned the Grind™ of Concacaf qualification yet?
  • (5) Meanwhile here's Wayne Charlton, coming late to the party with a little more Holland-related style pedantry: "References to Dutch here in the USA are not necessarily to those originally from the Netherlands but usually the Germans - Dutch being a bastardization of Deutsch ('German' in German).
  • (6) Yet the self-conscious pedantry – "during which time I passed not a few hours sitting by the window"; "an island with a circumference of some two miles" – makes the author a little distant, and we begin to wonder if the essay is a true account or a literary concoction spun in the study.
  • (7) As a rare psychiatric variant, a syndrome characterized by compulsive pedantry combined with tic-like hyperkinesias was observed.
  • (8) The particle "up" is an intransitive preposition and does not require an object, so even the most pedantic of pedants would have no objection to a phrase like "This is pedantry with which I will not put up."
  • (9) But eventually, I think, I landed on the right amount of outrage and pedantry that made the routine work.
  • (10) Our results confirmed some of the generally described personality-characteristics in patients with phobia: the phobic symptoms are often accompanied by physical symptoms (sensation of dizziness, weakness sensation, palpitation, sleep disturbance, heavy sweating and breathlessness) and psychic symptoms (anxiousness, depression, restlessness, reduced self-awareness, pedantry, inhibition of aggressive impulses) which could be influenced by psychotherapy.
  • (11) "While not trying to engage in the normal pedantry, can I note that Tab Ramos's much-lauded loyalty [last week's O Fiverão letters] is more a factor of MLS who hold his contract than Tab.
  • (12) None of his novels look particularly kindly upon his fellow man, but Lucky Jim , his first, is driven by a particularly epic disdain for the idiocies, pedantries, mindless rules and unpleasant personal habits with which humanity is cursed.
  • (13) preposition at the end of a sentence Winston Churchill did not, as legend has it, reply to an editor who had corrected his prose with "This is pedantry up with which I will not put."
  • (14) It is quick without being rash, accurate without leaden pedantry, thoughtful without being ponderous, and unpredictable in its opinions without being tediously contrarian.

Pedanty


Definition:

  • (n.) An assembly or clique of pedants.

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