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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 conversation was edifying and useful; never foolish or undignified.—In his theological opinions he was, to say the least, far from having any sympathy with Calvinism.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The Sardinians came next, and it was edifying to see how they could build a fire-place and obtain a fire in a few minutes to boil their pot.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 by Various