Pedantry: alternatives and connections

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a ra…

An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.

A literary lady; a female pedant.

Without boasting or ostentation.

Splendor; magnificence; showy appearance; ostentation; fine dress.

tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"

Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a…

Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.

To form with the manners or character of a cockney.

A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of soc…

Mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly civility; as, comity of manners; the comity of States.

A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.

Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious…

Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.

A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.

The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the…

Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude.

To instruct in the rudiments or principles of learning, or of a branch of learning; to imbue with learning; to instruct in, or imbue w…