"pedantess" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1784, [Robert] Bage, “Barham Downs”, in The Novels of Swift, Bage, and Cumberland, London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., published 1824, page 257",
          "text": "Unfeeling pedantess, says I to myself; thou art no wife for me.",
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          "text": "Why does not this pedantess wear the breeches?",
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          "text": "We do not wish our boys and girls to become pedants. Well, then, we must not become pedants and pedantesses ourselves.",
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          "ref": "1895, R[ichard] Garnett, The Age of Dryden, London: George Bell and Sons, page 251",
          "text": "‘Dryden weighs poets in his virtuoso’s scales that will weigh to the hundredth part of a grain, as curiously as Juvenal’s lady pedantess—[…]’",
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