The phrase "edifying of" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used to describe a process or action that helps to educate, enlighten, or morally improve someone. Example: The pastor's sermon was filled with edifying teachings on forgiveness and compassion.
At the head of this school, like an impish king, sits Hopkinson, the most satisfying and edifying of them all.
There is a telling quote in Politico having to do with Susan Rice's appearances on the Sunday-morning talk shows, bearing the talking points whose editing has been the subject of the least edifying of the Benghazi subconspiracy theories.
And so to the most edifying of trademark disputes, brought to the public attention after Pharrell Williams issued a statement in which he declared himself "disappointed that Will, a fellow artist, would file a case" against him.
The ugliest and least edifying of Plugger's reports came after the infamous Peter Caven shirt-front, when Lockett's fearsome elbow to the face of the courageously back-tracking defender led to a chorus of public outrage and landed him an eight-week suspension.
Let's stipulate that this has not been the most edifying of primary seasons.
In scale and subject, it evokes 19th-century history painting, once the most edifying of academic genres.
(Fantagraphics, £12.99. pp121) provides a very funny finale to Peter Bagge's 'Buddy Bradley' saga, recounting the less than edifying antics of the 'king of the slackers' (a sort of Freak Brother for the Nirvana generation).
Based on the experience of Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, the defense lawyers, "Actual Innocence" details several edifying stories of men cleared of serious crimes.
According to him, the whole story assumes an allegorical meaning, with Paul intent on telling an edifying story of the downfall of the hero and his expulsion from the promised land, because of his human weakness.
In the whole of Barocci: Brilliance and Grace, there is only one secular narrative painting – of the highly edifying tale of Aeneas Fleeing Troy.
He knows how families like his are buried alive, or worse, misshapen into caricatures for the amusement or edifying pity of others, a sort of Appalachian minstrelsy he accuses the authors Lee Smith and Silas House (among others) of practicing.
