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pedantically en · ADV

Etymology

From pedantic + -ally and/or pedantical + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a pedantic manner.
   • ‘I think you might have warned me,’ returned the other with a touch of sullenness. ‘But I have been pedantically exact, as you call it. The fellow had a key; and what’s more, he has it still. I saw him use it, not a week ago.’ 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Story of the Door”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 13:

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pedantly