Both Uses of
edify
in
Lord Jim
- I didn't hope to be very much impressed or edified, or interested or even frightened—though, as long as there is any life before one, a jolly good fright now and then is a salutary discipline.†
Chpt 14 *
- This, let me remind you again, is a love story; you can see it by the imbecility, not a repulsive imbecility, the exalted imbecility of these proceedings, this station in torchlight, as if they had come there on purpose to have it out for the edification of concealed murderers.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(edify) to instruct -- morally or intellectually