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Definition
a building — especially a large one
or:
a conceptual or organizational framework
or:
a conceptual or organizational framework
- 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
- 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
There are no more uses of "edifice" in A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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