All 7 Uses
edify
in
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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- "La sakes, now, does it?" said Uncle Tom, looking with a respectful, admiring air, as his young teacher flourishingly scrawled q's and g's innumerable for his edification; and then, taking the pencil in his big, heavy fingers, he patiently recommenced.†
Chpt 1.4edification = instruction
- Having, naturally, an organization in which the morale was strongly predominant, together with a greater breadth and cultivation of mind than obtained among his companions, he was looked up to with great respect, as a sort of minister among them; and the simple, hearty, sincere style of his exhortations might have edified even better educated persons.†
Chpt 1.4edified = instructed
- It must be observed that one of Sam's especial delights had been to ride in attendance on his master to all kinds of political gatherings, where, roosted on some rail fence, or perched aloft in some tree, he would sit watching the orators, with the greatest apparent gusto, and then, descending among the various brethren of his own color, assembled on the same errand, he would edify and delight them with the most ludicrous burlesques and imitations, all delivered with the most imperturbable earnestness and solemnity;†
Chpt 1.8edify = instruct
- There are a perfect host of Clarksons and Wilberforces* risen up among us on that subject, most edifying to hear and behold.†
Chpt 1.12 *edifying = instructive
- You know I'm such a graceless dog that these religious aspects of such subjects don't edify me much.†
Chpt 1.16edify = instruct
- Topsy, with great gravity and adroitness, went through the exercise completely to Miss Ophelia's satisfaction; smoothing the sheets, patting out every wrinkle, and exhibiting, through the whole process, a gravity and seriousness with which her instructress was greatly edified.†
Chpt 2.20edified = instructed
- Topsy was cited, and had up before all the domestic judicatories, time and again; but always sustained her examinations with most edifying innocence and gravity of appearance.†
Chpt 2.20edifying = instructive
Definitions:
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(1)
(edify) to instruct -- morally or intellectually
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)