Pedant vs Martinet - What's the difference?
pedant | martinet |
(archaic) A teacher or schoolmaster.
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A person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary.
(label) A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
(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.
As nouns the difference between pedant and martinet
is that pedant is schoolmaster while martinet is (lb) a strict disciplinarian or martinet can be a martin; a swift.As an adjective pedant
is pedantic.pedant
English
Noun
(en noun)- I have in my youth oftentimes beene vexed to see a Pedant [tr. pedante''] brought in, in most of Italian comedies, for a vice or sport-maker, and the nicke-name of ''Magister to be of no better signification amongst us.