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edification

[ ed-uh-fi-key-shuhn ]

noun

  1. an act of edifying.
  2. the state of being edified; uplift.
  3. moral improvement or guidance.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of edification1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English (from Anglo-French ), from Latin aedificātiōn-, stem of aedificātiō “act or process of building; a building”; in Late Latin also “spiritual improvement”; edify ( def ), -fication; aedicule ( def ),

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Example Sentences

Your letter was easily read, the pagination presented no difficulty, and I read it with much edification and gusto.

All these things we will describe for the edification of people under similar circumstances to ourselves.

You show wit, and I see you think to play the man of importance for my edification.

At any rate his daughter passes her day of edification entirely without his assistance.

Finally, Nachmanides wrote, not only for educational and theological ends, but also for edification.

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