edification

noun
/ˌɛdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from aedificationem — “building, construction

Definitions

  1. The act of edifying, or the state of being edified or improved

    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.
  2. A building or edifice.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for edification. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA