edification
The act of edifying, or the state of being edified or improved; a building process, especially morally, emotionally, or spiritually.
Noun
- The act of edifying, or the state of being edified or improved; a building process, especially morally, emotionally, or spiritually.
- Let euery one of vs please his neighbour for his good to edification. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 15:2:
- Caterina Pachetti had been a very pretty women, which she remembered more to her own edification than to that of her friends. - 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III,...
- It seems clear that he took great delight in his commonly perceived role as “the No 1 celebrity scientist”; huge audiences would attend his public lectures, perhaps not always just for scientific edification. - 2018...
- A building or edifice.
Origin
From Old French, from Latin aedificationem (“building, construction”), an accusative form of aedificatio, from aedificare.
Forms
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edificant edificator edificatory edifice edificial edifier edify edifyingly edifyingness