edification
noun/ˌɛdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin aedificationem (“building, construction”), an accusative form of aedificatio, from aedificare.
Definitions
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.
A building or edifice.
The neighborhood
- neighboredificant
- neighboredificator
- neighboredificatory
- neighboredifice
- neighboredificial
- neighboredifier
- neighboredify
- neighboredifyingly
- neighboredifyingness
Derived
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