edifies
- present tense form of edify (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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This is an album that edifies even as it enchants.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ken Loach's film, written by Rona Munro and based on a true story, horrifies and edifies in equal measure.
From Time Magazine Archive
If art no longer shocks, it seldom edifies.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the lapse of ages, perhaps, England, in her turn, may be deserted, her mines exhausted, her edifies ruined, her existence as a nation terminated.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 by Various
"You mean the pope and the church, I suppose," said the boy, in a tone of simplicity; "like my lady's chaplain, who often edifies his hearers on this topic."
From The Rivals of Acadia An Old Story of the New World by Cheney, Harriet Vaughan
