edify
verb (used with object)
to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift.
was edifying
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past progressiveof edify.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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
The blessing of the church was edifying and contributory.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
There's a traveling man frae Boston in town, Mary, and he was edifying the boys a little, and Jimmy dinna like it.
From At the Foot of the Rainbow by Gene Stratton-Porter
