The phrase "edifying for" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means something that is intended to educate or morally improve someone. Example: The teacher's lecture on modern society was edifying for the students, helping them understand the complexities of the world they live in.
The experience was formative and edifying for many young Scots.
However excruciating for her, it could be highly edifying for the rest of us.
But the contents of the emails was not edifying for anyone.
We couldn't have understood what those gritty and wanton love songs really meant, and they probably wouldn't now be judged edifying for twelve-year-olds.
What the authorities did encourage — or did less to discourage — were printmaking and other forms of graphic communication that, in theory at least, could be more broadly accessible to, and edifying for, the masses.
The fact that Moscow can produce a loud feminist action collective inspired by the punk rock band Bikini Kill and Julia Kristeva is as edifying for the West as it is dumbfounding to most Russians.
I am very conscious that these events may not look edifying or for that matter convincing to everybody on the outside.
There is a level of ubiquity about Chris Matthews today that can be exhausting, occasionally edifying and, for better or worse, central to what has become a very loud national conversation about politics.
It is an edifying format, for it shows the appropriation of earlier images by later artists, and how artists transmit artistic traditions, motifs and subjects from one context to the next.
We're really looking forward to 7 15pm this Sunday because it's the final episode of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme on Radio 4. This promises to provide 30 minutes of edifying entertainment for your ears, performed by Finnemore alongside Carrie Quinlan, Lawry Lewin and Simon Kane.
That hardly sets an edifying example for young scholars, such as those involved in the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research, a group of students and educators whose annual meeting takes place this year in Ambrose's hometown of Whitewater, Wis.
