"pedancy" meaning in English

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          "text": "It was Dr. Newcombe who answered and his word had a studied pedancy as if he was addressing a classroom.",
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          "ref": "2009, Joz Rhodes, The Dark Alternative, →ISBN, page 122:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2013, James D. G. Dunn, Four Views on the Role of Works at the Final Judgment, Zondervan, →ISBN, pages 58–59:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Pedantry; pedanticness."
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        "(nonstandard) Pedantry; pedanticness."
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