Both Uses
edify
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
(Edited)
- "No," said Atticus, "putting his life's history on display for the edification of the neighborhood."
p. 55.3edification = instruction
- Still, everything he read he passed along to me, but with this difference: formerly, because he thought I'd like it; now, for my edification and instruction.
p. 156.8 *edification = education
Definitions:
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(1)
(edify) to instruct -- morally or intellectually
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)