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Definition

a building — especially a large one

or:

a conceptual or organizational framework

The corporation was housed in an imposing edifice.

edifice = a building — especially a large one

He was determined to defeat the bill and tear down the entire edifice of free trade treaties.
That edifice is colossal.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

edifice = building

It gave beauty to the old edifice, and seemed to make it a part of nature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables

edifice = building

He saw a little glow ahead of him, and then without interval a tall flame leaped up in the dark with a crackling roar, and a tall edifice of fire lighted the pathway.
John Steinbeck -- The Pearl

edifice = framework

The wind, playing upon the edifice, produced a booming tune, like the note of some gigantic one-stringed harp.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The Shah ordered him to construct an edifice of this kind.
Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
And—a small bonus here—a woman who was, in George's observation, "built like a brick edifice.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
It was in the green burial-place of this edifice that Mrs. Touchett consigned her son to earth.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
Misuse of public funds, waste and corruption had reached such proportions during his administration that the edifice was toppling of its own weight.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
She looked microscopically at the lines of her flanks, wondering how soon the fine, slim edifice would begin to sink squat and earthward.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
That dreadful question, "What for?" which had formerly destroyed all his mental edifices, no longer existed for him.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
He landed and the whole edifice swayed drunkenly.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
Some large permanent brick edifices have already been reared on the scene of the ruins, and many others are in the process of erection....
Jim Murphy -- The Great Fire
I know they've sent countless packages that are piled up somewhere in the great, crumbling postal edifice downtown.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
My eyes searched the dark narrow passage to the right of the wide square edifice under the tower.
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
CHAPTER X Carley's edifice of hopes, dreams, aspirations, and struggles fell in ruins about her.
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
The huge edifice seemed to sway overhead, hundreds of feet high, a sheer cliff of stone.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes
The well-crafted social edifice, the perfection of humanity, the new Jerusalem.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain

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