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Examples of edify
edify
A response only of their emotions most often will be only to please me, not to edify me.
From the post-gazette.com
Unlike most modern hosts, Allen wasn't shy about trying to edify people.
From the time.com
We need a lot more than the seven weeks left in this campaign to edify the national dialogue.
From the sacbee.com
Mr Cameron wished to edify his followers as well as assure them that they are on the winning side.
From the telegraph.co.uk
In the end, though, I think we must simply remember that Hollywood is not trying to edify or instruct us.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
In western countries, with their Christian roots, we encounter the notion that ordeals edify the soul.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
The film delivers on its promise to edify at any cost.
From the time.com
Most great architects seek to impress, edify, instruct.
From the sacbee.com
Beautiful places and beautiful ideas will edify you.
From the suntimes.com
- Enlighten: make understand; "Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal"
- (edifying) enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement; "the paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read"
- (edification) uplifting enlightenment
- (edified) instructed and encouraged in moral, intellectual, and spiritual improvement
- To build, construct; To instruct or improve morally or intellectually
- (edifying) That educates, informs, illuminates or instructs; That enlightens or uplifts
- (edification) (n.): education; instruction
- (Edification) To "build up"; the purpose of fellowship and the gifts of the Spirit. To encourage "dying to self" as a means to gain resurrection life through the Gospel; and especially to speak words of faith to the new-life in believers to endure all things for the joy set before us. ...
- (Edification) To build up and strengthen. "He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church" (1 Cor. 14:4).
