pedant vs scholarly person

pedant and scholarly person both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pedant	Yes	No	No	No
scholarly person	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, scholarly person is a hypernym of pedant; that is, scholarly person is a word with a broader meaning than pedant:

pedant: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
scholarly person: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

Other hypernyms of pedant include bookman, scholar.

pedant (noun)	scholarly person (noun)
a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit	a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines