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edifying

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ed·i·fy  (d-f)
tr.v. ed·i·fied, ed·i·fy·ing, ed·i·fies
To instruct especially so as to encourage intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement.
[Middle English edifien, from Old French edifier, from Late Latin aedificre, to instruct spiritually, from Latin, to build; see edifice.]
edi·fier n.
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Adj.1.edifying - enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement; "the paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read"
enlightening
unedifying, unenlightening - not edifying
edifying
adjective instructive, improving, inspiring, elevating, enlightening, uplifting, instructional the reading of edifying literature
Translations
edifying [ˈedɪfaɪɪŋ] ADJ → edificante
edifying [ˈɛdɪfaɪɪŋ] adj → édifiant(e)
edifying
adj → erbaulich; this is not a very edifying spectacle → das ist kein besonders erbaulicher Anblick
edifying [ˈɛdɪˌfaɪɪŋ] adj → edificante
edifying [ˈɛdɪˌfaɪɪŋ] adj → edificante


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The sound of our pens going, refreshed us exceedingly, insomuch that I sometimes found it difficult to distinguish between this edifying business proceeding and actually paying the money.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
All human actions will then, of course, be tabulated according to these laws, mathematically, like tables of logarithms up to 108,000, and entered in an index; or, better still, there would be published certain edifying works of the nature of encyclopaedic lexicons, in which everything will be so clearly calculated and explained that there will be no more incidents or adventures in the world.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
On the day following Captain Bonneville's supervision of the industrious and frolicsome community of beavers, of which he has given so edifying an account, he succeeded in extricating himself from the Wind River Mountains, and regaining the plain to the eastward, made a great bend to the south, so as to go round the bases of the mountains, and arrived without further incident of importance, at the old place of rendezvous in Green River valley, on the 17th of September.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
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