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pedancy

noun

Etymology

From pedant + -cy.

  1. derived from pedante — “a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”
  2. borrowed from pedant
  3. suffixed as pedancy — “pedant + cy”

Definitions

  1. Pedantry

    Pedantry; pedanticness.

    • It was Dr. Newcombe who answered and his word had a studied pedancy as if he was addressing a classroom.
    • Also, for the sake of pedancy, instead of the same R we ought to use different symbols in (1) and (2), but this is unlikely to cause difficulty.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for pedancy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA