edify
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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
Whence every teacher also, that he may edify all in the one virtue of charity, ought to touch the hearts of his hearers out of one doctrine, but not with one and the same exhortation.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin
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