All 4 Uses of
edify
in
The Portrait of a Lady
- —I had found small edification, mostly, in a critical pretension that had neglected from the first all delimitation of ground and all definition of terms.†
Chpt Pref. *edification = instruction
- She did what she could to erect it into a law—a much more edifying aspect of it—by going to live in Florence, where she bought a house and established herself; and by leaving her husband to take care of the English branch of his bank.†
Chpt 3edifying = instructive
- Isabel hoped that so fair and smooth a page would be covered with an edifying text.†
Chpt 26
- "It will be better if they love each other," she said for edification.†
Chpt 44edification = instruction
Definition:
to instruct -- morally or intellectually