The meaning of Pedant

noun

A person who uses clever but unsound reasoning, especially in relation to moral questions; a sophist.

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My impression of him as a witness was that he was an inveterate casuist to say the least, and at ti…

adjective

Seeking to impose a doctrine in all circumstances without regard to practical considerations.

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The administration's doctrinaire economic policy

noun

A doctrinaire person.

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His biographer has rightly called him a ‘southern nationalist’ and the ‘last of the doctrinaires of…

adjective

Based on and following fixed beliefs rather than considering practical problems

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He has a somewhat doctrinaire approach to running the company.

noun

A person who believes too strongly that their personal opinions or beliefs are correct

noun

A person who adheres excessively to prescribed forms.

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To the strict formalist, the law is the law

adjective

Relating to or supporting principles of formalism.

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Formalist arguments

noun

Someone who finds faults in details that are not important

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Some people may say i'm being a nitpicker., the nitpicker in me had to mention that the flat wasn't…

noun

A person who refuses to accept any standard short of perfection.

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He was a perfectionist who worked slowly

adjective

Refusing to accept any standard short of perfection.

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With the help of his friends, he turns to rita harrison, a corporate workaholic perfectionist lawyer.

noun

A person who wants very much to get every detail exactly right

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As a film director, alfred hitchcock had the reputation of a perfectionist.

noun

An inferior legal practitioner, especially one who deals with petty cases or employs dubious practices.

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While the law asserts otherwise, truth's activism demonstrates the capacity of disfranchised americ…

noun

A person who is rigidly precise or punctilious, especially as regards religious rules.

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‘the generality of the people who were then called puritans, precisians, religious persons’, baxter…

noun

A person who insists on absolute adherence to traditional rules or structures, especially in language or style.

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The production has yet to offend gilbert and sullivan purists

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A person who believes that it is important to speak, write, or do things in a correct or traditional way

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Some purists complain that the buildings are not being accurately restored.

noun

A paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in greece in the classical and hellenistic periods, associated in popular thought with moral scepticism and specious reasoning.

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His mistress aspasia and the sophist anaxagoras were perhaps prosecuted.

noun

A person who uses sophistry (= clever but untrue arguments) in order to deceive people

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It was basically a selfish act, though no doubt a sophist would argue that it was done for the gene…