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  • 101pedantic — adj 1.(all in reference to one s learning) pretentious, show offish, ostentatious, pompous, haughty, vain, conceited; pedagoguish, scholastic, pe dantical; professorial, didactic, preachy; dogmatic, pragmatic, opinionated, bigoted. 2. punctilious …

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  • 102pedantic — pe•dan•tic [[t]pəˈdæn tɪk[/t]] orpe•dan′ti•cal adj. 1) cvb ostentatious in one s learning 2) cvb overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching • Etymology: 1590–1600; pedant+ ic pe•dan′ti•cal•ly, adv …

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  • 103pedantry — noun an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning • Derivationally related forms: ↑pedantic • Hypernyms: ↑ostentation, ↑fanfare, ↑flash …

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  • 104jurisprude — ˈju̇rə̇ˌsprüd noun ( s) Etymology: back formation (influenced by prude) from jurisprudence : a person who makes ostentatious show of learning in jurisprudence and the philosophy of law or who regards legal doctrine with undue solemnity or… …

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  • 105ENGLAND — The British Isles were unknown to the Jews until a late date, and the settlement of the Jews in medieval England was among the latest in Europe. It is possible that a small nucleus was to be found there under the Romans and that in the Saxon… …

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  • 106GERMAN LITERATURE — Biblical and Hebraic Influences Before the Aufklaerung (Age of Enlightenment), Jewish influences in German literature were essentially biblical and Hebraic. The medieval miracle or mystery plays, in Germany as in England and France, dramatized… …

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