edifying

Speech parts

1. edifying - Noun

2. edifying - Adjective

3. edifying - Verb

Meaning

of Edify

Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

enlightening educational beneficial helpful wholesome instructive improving uplifting enriching scholastic pedagogic moral teaching teach encouraging
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Antonyms

unedifying black blue naughty dark evil
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Phrases with the word

not edifying

Anagrams

deifying

Examples

the paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read Source: Internet

According to him, the whole story assumes an allegorical meaning, with Paul intent on telling an edifying story of the downfall of the hero and his expulsion from the promised land, because of his human weakness. Source: Internet

But the Edifying Discourses, though paralleling the pseudonymous works, spoke a little more directly, albeit without authority. Source: Internet

David F. Swenson first translated the works in the 1940s and titled them the Edifying Discourses; however, in 1990, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong translated the works again but called them the Upbuilding Discourses. Source: Internet

In this context, fasting is regarded by many Subud members as spiritually edifying, although its practice is not expected. Source: Internet

At some point, those things, and not a private immersion in a more edifying realm, became what people expected from the reading experience. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

edified edifier edify edifyingly edifyingness Ediger