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edify
/ˈɛdəˌfaɪ/
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What does edify mean?
verb
- To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.
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verb
- (archaic) To build, construct.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɛdəˌfaɪ/
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It does not present any means whereby dare-devil stunts can be performed to edify the grandstand.
By any means; our thing of learning says so— Where he himself will edify the Duke Most parlously in our behalfs.
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Your Church and Damien's were in Hawaii upon a rivalry to do well: to help, to edify, to set divine examples.
They may be good preachers, but they do not edify.
Let thy company be the humble and the simple, the devout and the gentle, and let thy discourse be concerning things which edify.