pedantess
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]pedantess (plural pedantesses)
- (rare, obsolete) female equivalent of pedant
- 1784, [Robert] Bage, “Barham Downs”, in The Novels of Swift, Bage, and Cumberland, London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., published 1824, page 257:
- Unfeeling pedantess, says I to myself; thou art no wife for me.
- 1820 May, W. Kenny, chapter VII, in The Historical and Unrevealed Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of Napoleon Buonaparte; Serving as an Illustration of the Manuscript of St. Helena. From 1781 to 1798. […], 3rd edition, page 95:
- Why does not this pedantess wear the breeches?
- 1884 July 1, H. Montagu Butler, “The Teacher an Example to His Pupils”, in The Journal of Education, a Monthly Record and Review, volume VI, number 180, London: William Rice, page 263:
- We do not wish our boys and girls to become pedants. Well, then, we must not become pedants and pedantesses ourselves.
- 1895, R[ichard] Garnett, The Age of Dryden, London: George Bell and Sons, page 251:
- ‘Dryden weighs poets in his virtuoso’s scales that will weigh to the hundredth part of a grain, as curiously as Juvenal’s lady pedantess—[…]’