have been edifying
- present perfect progressive of edify.
Example Sentences
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That’s not to say that the ensuing conversation would have been edifying.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2020
It might have been edifying but it wouldn’t have played well in the Catskills.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2017
It might have been edifying to hear a white Southerner who came of age in the world created by that exchange — even one who lived in relative middle-class comfort — speak about that.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2016
"It would have been edifying to the groom that had driven her to the station," Minver cynically suggested.
From Quaint Courtships by Howells, William Dean
In casting away everything that seemed to savour of either of these two extremes there was a danger of casting away also much that might have been edifying and elevating.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)
