Both Uses of
edifice
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- The gray granite edifice of Hurd's Church, which was so plain it might have been a Registry of Deeds or a Town Library or a Public Water Works, seemed to have composed itself around old Mr. Scammon's gouty limp and his sepulchral features.†
p. 119.6
- The dark-stained, wooden buttresses against the high, vaulted, white-plaster ceiling accentuate how well lit the church is; despite the edifice's predominance of stone and stained glass, there are no corners lost to darkness or to gloom.†
p. 179.5 *
Definition:
a building or structure -- especially a large one
or:
a conceptual or organizational framework
or:
a conceptual or organizational framework