Anything edifying is enlightening. Edifying things uplift people intellectually or morally and help them learn. Good literature, art, and music are edifying. The original meaning of edify was "to build," and things that are edifying build up a person, especially in an intellectual or moral way.
How do you use edifying?
Edify sentence example
- Edify for others, that's why he says "He that prophesies edifies the church." ...
- Sermons that edify are well attended; and his parishioners are as much edified by his good example as by his excellent discourses. ...
- He did not pronounce windy orations about things that did not concern or edify them.
How do you use edifying in a sentence?
Edifying sentence example
- It was an edifying experience. ...
- The principal theological writings of Basil are his De Spiritu Sancto, a lucid and edifying appeal to Scripture and early Christian tradition, and his three books against Eunomius, the chief exponent of Anomoian Arianism. ...
- His comments were edifying for everyone.
