All 4 Uses
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- I continue to sleep in my allotted cell, and I wear the same clothing and eat the same breakfast, in silence if you can call it silence, forty women, most of them in here for nothing worse than stealing, who sit chewing their bread with their mouths open and slurping their tea in order to make a noise of some sort even if not speech, with an edifying Bible passage read out loud.†
Chpt 4edifying = instructive
- Dr. Jordan, he said, was to be congratulated upon the edifying remarks with which he had honoured them today.†
Chpt 9 *
- We had orders to keep our ears open for the end of the meeting, which would be signalled by applause, and a speech to thank Dr. Jordan for his edifying remarks, which is what they say to everyone who speaks on these occasions; and that would be our signal to bring up the refreshments; and so one of the maids was told to listen at the parlour door.†
Chpt 9
- Busy yourself with the care of consciences, and with the delivery of edifying sermons for the improvement of public life and private morals, which God knows the country is in need of, and leave the brains of the degenerate to the authorities who specialize in them.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(edify) to instruct -- morally or intellectually
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)