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Pedantry vs Peasantry - What's the difference?

pedantry | peasantry |

As nouns the difference between pedantry and peasantry

is that pedantry is an excessive attention to detail or rules while peasantry is (historical) impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.

pedantry

English

Noun

(pedantries)
  • An excessive attention to detail or rules.
  • An instance of such behaviour.
    • I don't want to listen to your pedantries anymore.
  • An overly ambitious display of learning.

    • Related terms

    * pedant * pedantic * pedantocracy

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    peasantry

    English

    Noun

    (peasantries)
  • (historical) Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.
    • 1920' ''They distressed her. They were so stolid. She had always maintained that there is no American '''peasantry , and she sought now to defend her faith by seeing imagination and enterprise in the young Swedish farmers, and in a traveling man working over his order-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty. They were peasants, she groaned.'' — Sinclair Lewis, Main Street", Chapter 3.
  • Ignorant people of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics.
    • 1885' ''Such strange lingering echoes of the old demon worship might perhaps even now be caught by the diligent listener among the gray-haired '''peasantry ; for the rude mind with difficulty associates the ideas of power and benignity.'' — George Eliot, ''Silas Marner , Chapter 1.