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What does edify mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word edify? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (now rare) To build, construct.
  2. (transitive) To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.
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At some point of time, for sacred art to be able to edify souls, it needs to be really art, and really sacred.
Let the one in books that speak the truth edify religious men, and the other in lying fables delight impure demons.
Both disciplines understood their purpose to be the evocation and presentation of intended affections, thereby to persuade and to edify the listener.
He must inspire, exhort, sermonize, edify, or warn, resort to pulpitry in general.
Hagiographies have been written from the 2nd century ad to instruct and edify readers and glorify the saints.
That being said, a State still has the political responsibility of doing everything it can to edify its citizens.

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