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The ealiest known usage dates back to 1831

"Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot and a sot, bloated with family pride, and eternally blustering about the dignity of a born gentleman, yet stooping to be a talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London, [...] such was this man, and such he was content and proud to be." - Thomas Macaulay, The Edinburgh Review, September 1831

Later usage:

* "[the Brahmanas] form an aggregate of shallow and pedantic discussions, full of sacerdotal conceits" - Arthur Anthony Macdonell, A History of Sanskrit Literature, 1900

* "Our objections may seem shallow and pedantic, and may even be represented as a complaint that we had the less given us rather than the more" - Henry James, The Future of the Novel, 1956