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Example sentences for: pedantry

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[We would not dare to disagree, but the distinction between enclosed [herein] and enclosed herewith seems a finicky needle's-eye of pedantry, and it smacks of “reconstruction” of something that was never structured to begin with.
The issue of pronoun agreement might be laid at the door of the feminists' misguided interference with the forces of language, resulting in a nervous rejection of the masculine pronoun as the neutral one; but, in truth, the sustenance of the singular nature of words like each, everybody, everyone, etc. is probably pedantry, for sense and logic are not sacrificed by changing them to plurals, with the added benefit of avoiding the dreaded he/his/him, regarded by feminists as the bearer of the stigma of male machismo.
Ezra Pound, for all his provincial pedantry, in his Canto LXXXI as printed on p. 526 of The New Oxford Book of American Verse, writes didactically:
There is, of course, method in his madness (it has been claimed that puns introduce lunacy into language, but it was there all along), and capering wordcaprice in his pedantry.
As for me, I hope that my nitpicking through the articles you publish in VERBATIM demonstrates the consideration I think due these articles rather than envy and pedantry.