edify
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 5
/ˈɛdɪfaɪ/
Definition of edify
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.
“frustrate the best endeavours in the edifying of the church”
“January 23, 1783, Edward Gibbon, letter to Dr. Priestley It does not appear probable that our dispute [about miracles] would either edify or enlighten the public.”
“That they ought to edify one another by maintaining and promoting the knowledge of truth.”
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verb
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(transitive)To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.
“frustrate the best endeavours in the edifying of the church”
“January 23, 1783, Edward Gibbon, letter to Dr. Priestley It does not appear probable that our dispute [about miracles] would either edify or enlighten the public.”
“That they ought to edify one another by maintaining and promoting the knowledge of truth.”
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(archaic)To build, construct.
“That Castle was most goodly edifyde, / And plaste for pleasure nigh that forrest syde […]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Old French edifier (“to build, to edify”), from Latin aedificare (“build”).
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