Both Uses of
edify
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- All these details which we here lay bare for the edification of the reader, were so covered by the general uproar, that they were lost in it before reaching the reserved platforms; moreover, they would have moved the cardinal but little, so much a part of the customs were the liberties of that day.†
Chpt 1.1.3edification = instruction
- Claude had confided him to that same college of Torchi where he had passed his early years in study and meditation; and it was a grief to him that this sanctuary, formerly edified by the name of Frollo, should to-day be scandalized by it.†
Chpt 1.4.5 *edified = instructed
Definition:
to instruct -- morally or intellectually