Usually means: Improving moral or intellectual understanding.
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  1. edifying: Merriam-Webster
  2. edifying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. edifying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. edifying: Vocabulary.com
  5. Edifying, edifying: Wordnik
  6. edifying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. edifying: Wiktionary
  8. Edifying, edifying: Dictionary.com
  9. Edifying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. edifying: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. edifying: Rhymezone
  12. Edifying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. edifying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. edifying: FreeDictionary.org
  15. edifying: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. edifying: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. edifying: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. edifying: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  That educates, informs, illuminates or instructs.
▸ adjective:  That enlightens or uplifts.
▸ noun:  Edification.

Similar:
enlightening, illuminating, instructive, reformative, hortatory, clarificatory, expositive, claritive, clarifying, rectificatory, more...

Opposite:
unenlightening, uninstructive, unprofitable, unhelpful, useless

Adjectives:
more, little, godly, highest, soundest, better, singularly, acceptable, holy, mere, famous

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Similar:
enlightening, illuminating, instructive, reformative, hortatory, clarificatory, expositive, claritive, clarifying, rectificatory, more...

Opposite:
unenlightening, uninstructive, unprofitable, unhelpful, useless

Adjectives:
more, little, godly, highest, soundest, better, singularly, acceptable, holy, mere, famous

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     white,     blue,     green, more...



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