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Перевод: pedant

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педант ; доктринер ; педантство
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Тезаурус:

1. He claims that he was a little pedant, even as early as the age of five.
2. The pedant, persistent as ever, could insist that Pulex irritans is the proper term for a flea and it therefore ought to be provided for those who understand it.
3. The chaplain of the college was a pleasant gentleman, his teacher of classics was a worthy pedant, and neither meant much to him.
4. A domineering pedant o'er the boy,
5. Faltering 17th-century attempts at ecumenical dialogue between western Protestants and eastern Orthodox churches are treated here in an entertaining piece, whose footnotes also show with what insolent and deliberate ease Dacre can out-pedant any pedant.
6. One final note from a pedant: a lethal misprint on page 50 has ensured that a generation of students will be informing their tutors that the Socinians were nationalists, rather than rationalists.
7. " Pedant, Annie," said Sheila happily.
8. But (the pedant may pursue the point), what if the flea and its garments were housed in separate locations?
9. "Oh, was he!" they say, and dismiss Mr Wood as a nonentity, and me as a pedant or a poseur.
10. The pedant might create a separate physical record for each item: the fleas, plus the individual garments.
11. Within every institution (and indeed, individual) may be found the polarised views of the pedant and the pragmatist.
12. "Pedant.
13. The pedant's argument might be that Pulex irritans is a very specific term for an otherwise undistinguished little insect.