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Definition of Edifying
1. Adjective. Enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement. "The paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read"
Definition of Edifying
1. a. Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation.
Definition of Edifying
1. Adjective. That educates, informs, illuminates or instructs. ¹
2. Adjective. That enlightens or uplifts. ¹
3. Verb. (present participle of edify) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Edifying
1. edify [v] - See also: edify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Edifying
Literary usage of Edifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"This confirmation takes place through the exposition of Christian truth, which
has edifying power through the testimony of the Holy Spirit. ..."
2. An Essay on the Composition of a Sermon by Jean Claude (1782)
"Dr. Moore at Guildhall Chapel 1684. Bp. Beveridge had the courage to fet out at
i Cor. xiv. 26. Let all things be done to edifying, and, in one lingle ..."
3. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan (1853)
"I, for my part, my chil dren, will teach you what I can while you are here,
andshall be glac if you will ask me questions thai tend to godly edifying. ..."
4. Sermons on Various Subjects, Evangelical, Devotional and Practical: Adapted by Joseph Lathrop (1810)
"The general end to which we must direct our speech is, " that it be good to the
use of edifying." In pursuance of this design, we must avoid such ..."
5. Expository Lectures on the Epistle to the Ephesians by Robert James M'Ghee (1857)
"For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying
of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, ..."
6. Primitive Christianity: Its Writings and Teachings in Their Historical by Otto Pfleiderer (1911)
"THE " APOCALYPSE OF PETER " THE writing which has come down to us under the title
of the First Epistle of Peter is an edifying homily cast into the form of ..."
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