or Pedantism, the quality or manner of a pedant. See Pedant.

To swell up little and low things, to make a vain show of science, to heap up Greek and Latin without judgment, to tear those to pieces who differ from us about a passage in Suetonius or the etymology of a word, to stir up all the world against a man for not admiring Cicero enough, to be interested for the reputation of an ancient as if he were our next of kin, is what we properly call pedantry.