was edifying
- past progressive of edify.
Example Sentences
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He was edifying me,” Henry said in a 2017 New Yorker profile.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2019
During the more than four years I spent covering weddings — an endeavor that was edifying and inspiring — I heard versions of this same story again and again.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2015
It was edifying to watch them struggle with that.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 18, 2015
His very countenance was edifying, such a sweet and calm devotion appearing in it as could not but effect the beholders.
From The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life by Lawrence, of the Resurrection, Brother
The party moved on to where the minister in his shirt-sleeves was edifying a small, but select, not to say noisy, congregation.
From The History and Records of the Elephant Club by Doesticks, Q. K. Philander
