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Stanza one begins with the speaker in bed with his lover, complaining about sun's beaming rays. Donne uses expressions such as, "Busy old fool" (line 1) and "Saucy Pedantic Wretch" [perfectionist] [4] (line 5) to describe his annoyance with it. The speaker of the poem questions the sun's motives and yearns for the sun to go away so that he and ...
In psychiatry, stilted speech or pedantic speech [1] is communication characterized by situationally inappropriate formality. [2] This formality can be expressed both through abnormal prosody [ 3 ] as well as speech content that is "inappropriately pompous, legalistic, philosophical, or quaint". [ 4 ]
Pedantry is the adjective form of the 1580s English word pedant, which meant a male schoolteacher at the time. [3] The word pedant originated from the French word for "schoolmaster," pédant, in the 1560s, or from the Italian word for "teacher, schoolmaster," pedante.
It was an important item for many scholars, which soon became symbolic of writers in general. Later, it became a byword for fussy or pedantic writers. [1] The phrase "inkhorn term" is found as early as 1553. [2] And ere that we will suffer such a prince, So kind a father of the commonweal, To be disgracèd by an inkhorn mate
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Defending champion and No. 1 seed Jannik Sinner easily dispatches host country's last hope; Ben Shelton takes on-court interviewers to task.
While mocking a pedantic schoolmaster, Costard uses the word honorificabilitudinitatibus, the longest word by far from any of Shakespeare's works. Costard makes many clever puns, and is used as a tool by Shakespeare to explain new words such as remuneration. He is sometimes considered one of the smartest characters in the play due to his wit ...
Where you know her from: “Selling Sunset” Chrishell Stause rose to fame with the cast of “Selling Sunset,” which follows the lives of a luxury real estate firm in L.A.