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/ˈɛdəfˌaɪɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Edify v. i. (past & past part. edified; pres. part. edifying)

To build; to construct. (Archaic) "There was a holy chapel edified."

To instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach. "It does not appear probable that our dispute (about miracles) would either edify or enlighten the public."

To teach or persuade. (Obs.)

Edify v. i. To improve. (R.)

adjective

Edifying adj. Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation.

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Etymology of 'Edifying'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Edifying" Quotes from Famous Books

... another doctrine of this holy maid, the which she used to say to herself in edifying ...

— The Cell of Self-Knowledge - Seven Early English Mystical Treaties • Various

... converted character, ain't he, Doctor?" sarcastically remarked Quick, who had been watching this edifying scene. "Nasty Eastern temper all gone; no Hebrew talk of eye for eye or tooth for tooth, but kisses the fist that smote him in the best Christian spirit. All the same, I wouldn't trust the swine further than I could kick him, especially in the dark, which," he added meaningly, ...

— Queen Sheba's Ring • H. Rider Haggard

... night-time were absolutely in the dark. Not a single ray of gaslight illuminated them. The doers of evil liked such places; and the courts at nightfall were often full, and sounds the reverse of edifying were apt to ...

— A Girl of the People • L. T. Meade

... telephone-message sent to the bank to announce the murder of M. d'Ormeval, which stops all payments. The upshot of all this is that the police, if you persist in your schemes of revenge, will have in their hands all the proofs that are wanted against you and your brother. I might add, as an edifying piece of evidence, the story of the conversation which I overheard between your brother and yourself in a dining-car on the railway between Brest and Paris, a fortnight ago. But I feel sure that you will not drive me to adopt these extreme measures and that we understand ...

— The Eight Strokes of the Clock • Maurice Leblanc

... more. When the study of the Irish literary records is revived, as it certainly will be revived, the old history of each of these raths and cromlechs will be brought again into the light, and one new interest of a beautiful and edifying nature attached to the landscape, and affecting wholly for good the ...

— Early Bardic Literature, Ireland • Standish O'Grady

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