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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There are stories and edifying captions on just about every page.
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Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2024
But hang in there: Viewers who allow themselves to be taken on this wide-ranging, occasionally digressive journey will emerge not just edified but emotionally wrung out and, somehow, cleansed.
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
If a reporter were to crop a photo that was previously edified using Photoshop, for example, both of those changes to the images would be noted in the final manifest.
—Popular Science, 8 Feb. 2024
General readers will be more edified by the story of the expedition itself, which the author describes in detail.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2023
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Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2024
But hang in there: Viewers who allow themselves to be taken on this wide-ranging, occasionally digressive journey will emerge not just edified but emotionally wrung out and, somehow, cleansed.
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
If a reporter were to crop a photo that was previously edified using Photoshop, for example, both of those changes to the images would be noted in the final manifest.
—Popular Science, 8 Feb. 2024
General readers will be more edified by the story of the expedition itself, which the author describes in detail.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2023
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