edification

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/ˌɛdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

Definition of edification

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noun

(countable, uncountable)The act of edifying, or the state of being edified or improved; a building process, especially morally, emotionally, or spiritually.

“Let euery one of vs please his neighbour for his good to edification.”
“Caterina Pachetti had been a very pretty women, which she remembered more to her own edification than to that of her friends.”
“It seems clear that he took great delight in his commonly perceived role as “the No 1 celebrity scientist”; huge audiences would attend his public lectures, perhaps not always just for scientific edification.”

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noun

(countable, uncountable)The act of edifying, or the state of being edified or improved; a building process, especially morally, emotionally, or spiritually.

“Let euery one of vs please his neighbour for his good to edification.”
“Caterina Pachetti had been a very pretty women, which she remembered more to her own edification than to that of her friends.”
“It seems clear that he took great delight in his commonly perceived role as “the No 1 celebrity scientist”; huge audiences would attend his public lectures, perhaps not always just for scientific edification.”
(archaic, countable, uncountable)A building or edifice.

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From Old French, from Latin aedificationem (“building, construction”), an accusative form of aedificatio, from aedificare.

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