edifying

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Do they not teach, (262) that no idle ceremony which serveth not unto edifying is to be suffered in the church; and that godly brethren are not holden to subject themselves unto such things as they perceive neither to be right nor profitable? (

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  1. Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation.

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  1. enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement

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  • Some of their recorded doctrines are truly edifying, and find a response in some of the best episcopal charges and admonitions of the Protestant church at the present day. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Henri of Monmouth Vol. II by J. Endell Tyler
  • Lady Harcourt told me his pious acknowledgment for his great escape of being shipwrecked was quite edifying, and the very great change in his moral habits and religious feelings was quite astonishing, and all owing to Lady C The Duchess of Gloucester went to see him yesterday. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Memoirs of the Court of George IV., Vol. I, by The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
  • “If you lose one , that God, for whose sake you have left it, will doubtless provide another, and perhaps a better for you.” Scarcely more edifying are the considerations of self-interest which should guide a maidservant into the paths of virtue. —  The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood
  • The documents issued by the Assembly after the violent events of the Tenth of August 1792 are not edifying, and imply in Condorcet, who composed them, a certain want of eye for revolutionary methods. —  Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet
  • It is natural enough though not particularly edifying, that in a war each party ascribes all the guilt thereof to the opponents and poses as the innocent who maliciously was surprised when not dreaming of any harm. —  Face to Face with Kaiserism
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