casuist vs pedant

casuist

noun
  • Someone who attempts to specify exact and precise rules for the direction of every circumstance of behaviour. 

  • One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry. 

  • A person who resolves cases of conscience or moral duty. 

pedant

noun
  • A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar. 

  • A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. 

adj
  • Pedantic. 

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