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
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
And where are the stories better calculated to interest a child than these same old stories, that have edified a hundred generations?
From The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by M. (Mosheim) Rhodes
The cross-examination had moved on to the subject of Larry's religion, and the combative fervour of Major Dick's Protestantism might have edified John Knox.
From Mount Music by Martin Ross
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
