edify - use in sentences

Object

  • church: Love for others, that's why he says ' he that prophesies edifies the church ' .

Preposition: of

  • church: Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

Object

  • spectacle: Not an edifying spectacle, and all the stranger given Moore's confidence of an anti-war vote turning out for a pro-war candidate.
  • other: The word of Christ is to dwell in us in order that we may be useful for edifying others.
  • tale: They were meant to be edifying tales for infants and immature grown ups.
  • experience: To move, affect and stir the passions is the main aim of the baroque with the ultimate goal of an edifying experience.
  • sight: It's not an edifying sight, particularly spread over seven years.

Preposition: for

  • everyone: We are to do only what is edifying for everyone.

Modifying Another Word

  • particularly: I do not find that kind of working in an audit report particularly edifying.
  • very: For example the Acta of many of the early martyrs survive intact and are very edifying and very moving.
  • not: The prospect of that victory being sacrificed now is not edifying to the General Staff, who have a strong say in Turkish politics.
  • hardly: For the rest of us, being around those in a drug state is hardly edifying.
  • spiritually: Ironically, he seems to applaud their ' duplicity because it will, his characters believe, be spiritually edifying.

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