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
Pious, just, humane, temperate, sincere, uniform, dignified, and commanding, his example was edifying to all around him, as were the effects of that example lasting.
From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
I observed this as well as I could, but found in it little that was edifying, and was still forced to add enough of my own to make it only tolerable.
From Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by John Oxenford
