pedancy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It was Dr. Newcombe who answered and his word had a studied pedancy as if he was addressing a classroom."
- "From there they were taken down, carted off to whichever State Penitentiary and assigned their own little cube to sit in and stew, while a barrage of courts and lawyers fought over deadlines and appeals and legal pedancy and the whole process ground on almost exactly as it always had before."
- "Also, for the sake of pedancy, instead of the same R we ought to use different symbols in (1) and (2), but this is unlikely to cause difficulty."
- "To take such expressions as literal statements of fact runs so counter to the experience of Christians from day one as to undermine any belief in them. A literary pedancy makes such biblical language less credible, not more credible."
Etymology
From pedant + -cy.