Pedancy

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.