edify

But that’s partly why he’s there: to expand and edify their thinking, which he attempts to do gently and judiciously.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

It sometimes feels like our information-stuffed age has done little to inform or edify but a great deal to buttress those who think they have all the facts on their side.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2022

Gonzalez’s main strategies are to allow Olga’s mother to edify the reader along with her children through her letters and to have characters speak to each other in blocks of exposition.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2022

One story, The Millionaire, describes a disgraced man who undergoes ritual humiliation to edify people who want to witness “the version of the world you believe in”.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2020

Pray forgive me for not driving myself to the railway station to meet my grand-daughter and to edify the officials with a touching and effective scene.

From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Ossip Schubin

If art no longer shocks, it seldom edifies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ken Loach's film, written by Rona Munro and based on a true story, horrifies and edifies in equal measure.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is an album that edifies even as it enchants.

From Time Magazine Archive

The judge, who lives impeccably upstairs With dull decorum and its implication, Has all his servants in to family prayers, And edifies his soul with exhortation.

From Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country by DuBose Heyward

This is that which so often edifies me in Christian writers and speakers, when I ever so much disbelieve the letter of their sentences.

From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Francis William Newman

Boston did, however, bring unity: The court spoke unanimously, through an opinion by retiring Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who is heading home to an edified Boston.

From Washington Post ● May 6, 2022

But what makes the play especially tricky, and possibly infuriating to theatergoers seeking to be efficiently edified, is that Shawn doesn’t neatly sort out the subjective views of his characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2017

We’d been there for several hours by then, had consumed our blueberries and granola bars, were edified and overstimulated and thinking about making our way home after a while.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 22, 2017

Listening to Serial, This American Life, Radiolab, WTF with Marc Maron, or 99% Invisible, we expect to come out the other end edified and enriched, in complex ways.

From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2014

Parsons, his attention caught by the trumpet call, sat listening with a sort of gaping solemnity, a sort of edified boredom.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Choudhury’s account was my first stop falling down the dinosaur community rabbit hole, and one of the most edifying.

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026

The interviews are inconsistent, and some are more edifying than others.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

Nik goes further and says it was "absolutely edifying".

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024

It’s also a central pillar of the pair’s edifying new sitcom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

“I’ll sit over here with Nell, and if you come across any particularly edifying moral precepts you think would do me good, read them aloud.”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson