edify
verb (used with object)
to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift.
edifies
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present tense formof edify (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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If art no longer shocks, it seldom edifies.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
This is that which so often edifies me in Christian writers and speakers, when I ever so much disbelieve the letter of their sentences.
From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Francis William Newman
In so far as the drama uplifts and edifies the audience, it does so, not by precept or by syllogism, but by emotional suggestion.
From The Theory of the Theatre by Clayton Meeker Hamilton
