Both Uses
edifice
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Earth's Holocaust
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- Those simple edifices might have been permitted to retain all of sacred embellishment that their Puritan founders had bestowed, even though the mighty structure of St. Peter's had sent its spoils to the fire of this terrible sacrifice.†
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- But the Titan of innovation,— angel or fiend, double in his nature, and capable of deeds befitting both characters,—at first shaking down only the old and rotten shapes of things, had now, as it appeared, laid his terrible hand upon the main pillars which supported the whole edifice of our moral and spiritual state.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(edifice) a building or structure -- especially a large one
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a conceptual or organizational framework - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)