Usually means: Instructs or improves someone morally.
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  1. edifies: Merriam-Webster
  2. edifies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. edifies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. edifies: Vocabulary.com
  5. edifies: Wordnik
  6. edifies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. edifies: Wiktionary
  8. edifies: Dictionary.com
  9. edifies: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. edifies: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (edify)

▸ verb:  (now rare) To build, construct.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.
▸ Also see edify


Opposite:
corrupts, degrades, undermines, deteriorates

Types:
builds, strengthens, enlightens, informs, teaches, uplifts, more...

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Opposite:
corrupts, degrades, undermines, deteriorates

Types:
builds, strengthens, enlightens, informs, teaches, uplifts, more...




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