edify
verb (used with object)
to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift.
have edified
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present perfectof edify.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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For over thirty years, Mr. Plaschke’s stories have edified the biggest stars in the Los Angeles sports world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2020
It is not enough that we have edified her a pedestal and perform impossible rites in celebration of her altitude and distinction.
From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by S. O. (Silas Orrin) Howes
The camp that night was a grand debating society, every man propounding a theory of strategy that would have edified General McDowell, no doubt, if he could have been given a précis of the whole.
From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan
Would preach abstinence, and practise luxury! but, I thank my stars, I have edified more by his example than his precept.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
However, it so happens, that our ablest brethren, in their elaborate disquisitions upon this subject, have written with so much caution, that ignorant unbelievers have edified very little by them.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift
