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Edifying

Edifying Meaning & Definition
Edifying Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Edifying?

[adj] 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Edifying: enlightening

Related Terms | Find terms related to Edifying: autodidactic | coeducational | cultural | didactic | disciplinary | educating | educational | educative | enlightening | exhortatory | homiletic | hortatory | illuminating | informative | initiatory | instructive | introductory | lecturing | preaching | preceptive | propaedeutic | self-teaching | teaching | tuitionary

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Edifying In Webster's Dictionary

\Ed"i*fy`ing\, a. Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation. -- {Ed"i*fy`ing*ly}, adv. -- {Ed"i*fy`ing*ness}, n.

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