edification

[ US /ˌɛdəfəˈkeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /ˌɛdɪfɪkˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. uplifting enlightenment
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How To Use edification In A Sentence

  • Cemeteries are no longer sites of public moral edification and aesthetic education.
  • I tend to watch the television for pleasure rather than edification.
  • Nicholas is rather out of his element now; he cannot see the kitchen as he used to in the old House; there, one window of his glass – case opened into the room, and then, for the edification and behoof of more juvenile questioners, he would stand for an hour together, answering deferential questions about Sheridan, and Percival, and Castlereagh, and Sketches by Boz
  • But if your tolerance for self-importance is dipping low, look elsewhere for edification.
  • We do not customarily look to opera for moral edification.
  • Building on this tradition, Christian theologians conceived sancta memoria, a medieval practice of meditation in which mechanisms and processes of architectural construction figured as metaphors for spiritual edification. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • Even during such moments, however, the general reader is pulled back and forth between edification and enlightenment.
  • I tend to watch the television for pleasure rather than edification.
  • It has its rectoress and portress, and they live with great edification and holy customs. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
  • This literal and most pious exposition of that gospel contains the whole practical science of virtues and vices, and is an inexhausted source of excellent morality, and a finished model of preaching the word of God, and of expounding the oracles of eternal life for the edification of souls. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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