Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A school or school-house.
- noun The system of pedagogy; the office of a pedagogue.
- noun A petty instructiveness; a dogmatic and narrow-minded method of dealing with things.
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Examples
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It was the needless pedagoguery -- the tyranny of the pluperfects, the intransitives and all the rest.
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You are still trying to interpret the nuances of Diamond's latest pedagoguery-could this be a veiled invitation for you to enlist his aid in your oil futures play?
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994
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I was in no mood then for my father's insatiable pedagoguery.
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But mostly we were treated to a vintage Obama Q & A, dominated as it was by the meandering pedagoguery and vain appeals to reason that have become a rather dismal hallmark of his presidency.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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" On that day, however, pedagoguery gave way to concern.
Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990
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