edify
verb (used with object)
to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift.
are edifying
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present progressiveof edify.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Excerpts from other interviews with TV hosts such as Dick Cavett, Merv Griffin and Bill Boggs are edifying as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2021
Whether it’s favorable or unfavorable, it gives them some connection with the person who’s onstage, and I think those connections are edifying.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2016
In theory, debates are edifying exchanges and arguments.
From Time ● Oct. 3, 2012
Their attachment to each other, and devotion to their nephew, are edifying; and he appears worthy of it.
From The Idler in France by Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
The Dial was the original organ of this afflatus, and contains many articles that are edifying to Christians of good digestion.
From History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes
