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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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And our elder members continue to edify us by their fidelity, their faith, their interest in the mission, and often by their work.
Some are called to sow, others to reap some are eminently qualified to awaken sinners, others to edify saints.
Is it my chief design, in choosing my subject, and composing my sermon, to edify the souls of men?
Let the one in books that speak the truth edify religious men, and the other in lying fables delight impure demons.
They may edify each other, they certainly have no power of edifying any one else.
Remember, I don't write all my inane prattle here for personal or financial benefit, but merely to try and lighten the dark corners of your souls, and edify your weary minds.

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