Sample Sentences for
edify
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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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    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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    It was very edifying, baby.  (source)
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    But it is hardly edifying.  (source)
    edifying = instructive
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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)
    edification = instruction
    standard 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)
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    What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that's the only name I can think of for it...like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America, this America, the one that we are now in, an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer.†  (source)
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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)
    standard 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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    "There was, as usual, the dissertation upon wines, not very. edifying," John Quincy recorded after another dinner.  (source)
    edifying = instructive
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    For the edification of the fence gossipers, he would later describe what he had seen.†  (source)
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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)
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    Bodies and body parts were carried out in trucks every night and posed throughout the city, a macabre public arts program that served to educate and edify.†  (source)
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