What is "pedantries"

Usage examples of "pedantries".

Idea pieces can be fascinating and important and moving and provocative, but they can also be (and often are) tracts, fulminations, pedantries and muddy blaster pieces.

But fortunately in the Bible of 1588, by Dr William Morgan, most of Salesbury's pedantries were abandoned.

He went wandering through the camp declaiming such pedantries as, "Wisdom-loving men - for I name you philosophers rather than soldiers - should show the barbarians that their eagerness is deathless," and, "The souls of the Yezda are not double, nor are their bodies made of adamant.