as in to educate
to provide (someone) with moral or spiritual understanding
a family-oriented show that tried to edify the television audience as well as entertain it
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From our review: The much-in-vogue hybrid mode proves more cryptic than edifying this time around.
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The New York Times, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
The encounter between biological and ballroom families yields the most edifying conversations in I’m Your Venus.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
The much-in-vogue hybrid mode proves more cryptic than edifying this time around.
—Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Consider it everyday activism anchored in acknowledgement, self-preservation and edifying intellectual steers.
—Katie Baron, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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The New York Times, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
The encounter between biological and ballroom families yields the most edifying conversations in I’m Your Venus.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
The much-in-vogue hybrid mode proves more cryptic than edifying this time around.
—Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Consider it everyday activism anchored in acknowledgement, self-preservation and edifying intellectual steers.
—Katie Baron, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for edify
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“Edify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/edify. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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