formalist vs pedant

formalist

noun
  • An overly formal person, especially one who adheres to current forms; a stickler 

  • An advocate of formalism 

adj
  • Of or pertaining to formalism; formalistic 

pedant

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

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

adj
  • Pedantic. 

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