edify
v.
educate morally or spiritually, provide moral guidance, strengthen, improve
edifying
Adjective
1. 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"
(synonym) enlightening
(antonym) unedifying, unenlightening
edify
Verb
1. make understand; "Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal"
(synonym) enlighten
(hypernym) teach, learn, instruct
(derivation) edification, sophistication
Edifying
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Edify
(a.)
Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Synonyms and related words:
autodidactic, coeducational, cultural, didactic, disciplinary, educating, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortatory, homiletic, hortatory, illuminating, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic, self-teaching, teaching, tuitionary,
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Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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