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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Recent Examples of edify
The pair spectacularly fell out at the back end of last year, amid a series of less than edifying verbal jousts.
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Dan Cancian, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
From our review: The much-in-vogue hybrid mode proves more cryptic than edifying this time around.
—The New York Times, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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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Dan Cancian, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
From our review: The much-in-vogue hybrid mode proves more cryptic than edifying this time around.
—The New York Times, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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 22 Apr. 2025.
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