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She edifies and inspires supporters everywhere she speaks.edifies = teaches or instructs
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She both entertains and edifies when she speaks.
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"No," said Atticus, "putting his life's history on display for the edification of the neighborhood." (source)edification = instruction
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Here it is, for your enjoyment and instruction, for your gratification and edification, the show you've been waiting for all your life, THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH! (source)
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You're on your bed trimming your toenails with a knife — not a very edifying sight — and as for me…. (source)edifying = instructive
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"There was, as usual, the dissertation upon wines, not very. edifying," John Quincy recorded after another dinner. (source)
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But it is hardly edifying. (source)edifying = instructive
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Dida didn't need to read slokas for my edification: she had her own vast store of knowledge.† (source)edification = instructionstandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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We get the ransom, museum gets the painting, cops get to close the case, insurance company gets its money back, public is edified, everyone wins.† (source)edified = instructed
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If my notes should cause the groom ... an uneasy moment or two, so much the better. Nobody's aiming to please, here. More, really, to edify, to instruct. (source)edify = to teach (instruct)
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Had he been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforc'd, their aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good citizens.† (source)unedifying = not instructivestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unedifying means not and reverses the meaning of edifying. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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It is not certain that, in attaching himself to Doc Vickerson, Martin was entirely and edifyingly controlled by a desire to become a Great Healer.† (source)
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It was very edifying, baby. (source)edifying = instructive
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Here I am, straining my lungs for your edification.† (source)edification = instruction
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He has just been on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe and has been much edified.† (source)edified = instructed
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The "Gospels" come later and were written not to make Christians but to edify Christians already made.† (source)edify = instruct
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