Martinet vs Stickler - What's the difference?
martinet | stickler |
(lb) A strict disciplinarian.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
(lb) Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules.
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*:In ancient time they were wont to employ third persons as sticklers , to see no treachery or disorder were used, and to beare witnes of the combates successe.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* Dryden
Someone who insistently advocates (for) something.
:Lexicographers are stickler s for correct language.
* Jonathan Swift
As nouns the difference between martinet and stickler
is that martinet is (lb) a strict disciplinarian or martinet can be a martin; a swift while stickler is .martinet
English
Etymology 1
After the example of 17th century French army officer .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl)stickler
English
Noun
(en noun)- Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey.
- Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, / First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise.
- The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of King James II.