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The phrase "edifying" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is educational, informative, or morally uplifting. Example: "The lecture on environmental conservation was truly edifying, providing valuable insights into sustainable practices."
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edifying
verb
Present participle of edify
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It is not edifying, that is why I feel we had to do our best to get round the table and see if there are grounds for consideration for the move but it [the clause] is not specific and 100% certain".
AS CALLS to arms go, it was not exactly edifying.
However, had you even passingly acknowledged that some women may spend their 20s neither clubbing nor child-rearing, but working, and their money on neither nappies nor handbags, but on down-payments for a house, that would have been still more edifying.
And he has all but said that if he doesn't get a tunnel Ms Gregoire and her $2.4 billion can take a hike.The spectacle of the bulky, dark-haired Mr Nickels mud-wrestling with the diminutive, honey-haired Ms Gregoire has not been edifying.
Mr Perry duly obliged.What elections are forComedy, vanity, pomposity, flashes of mendacity: the Republican campaign has not been edifying.
The contest among them, which Mr Brown may remain to preside over, should be edifying.
It would have been a matter of months, weeks even, before a flotilla of wonks sailed out of their think-tanks and shot him full of holes.The transformation of democracy into an endless war of pundits may not be edifying; it may offend America's idealistic strain.
And, at times, his gossip titillates without edifying.
At the same time, "he raised his hand, and over the desolate earth he traced in space the sign of the dollar".The persistent success of "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead" shows that Rand died (in 1982) without heirs to her blend of long-winded romance, edifying techno-psychology, and obdurate ideological rigidity, without situating such a tale in the ghetto of science fiction.
THE sight of a pack of adults shouting at each other is rarely edifying.
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Less forgivably, he created a faction within his party that included some of the most disreputable practitioners of Italy's seldom-edifying cold-war politics.
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