edifying vs pedantic

edifying

adj
  • That educates, informs, illuminates or instructs. 

  • That enlightens or uplifts. 

noun
  • edification 

pedantic

adj
  • Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant. 

  • Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner. 

How often have the words edifying and pedantic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )