Examples of edification in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This was not for any tactical advantage, but rather for Brown’s personal edification. — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2022 Reading here is not embraced as mere escape, nor glorified as edification. — Nina Renata Aron, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022 For decades, hit records have offered instruction and edification, lessons from the Book of Love, step-by-step guides to dance crazes. — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022 International arts exchanges are not just forms of entertainment or edification but a birthright of global citizenship. — Suzanne Nossel, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022 Feeders have long been a popular way to connect with nature and draw in native species and passing migrants for our edification. — Asher Elbein, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2022 In 1712 King Louis XIV of France signed the lettres patentes that formally established Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences, Belles Lettres, and Arts, a social club of intellectual inquiry and public edification. — Andrew S. Curran, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2021 For your own edification, Miss Manners assures you that snooping is a transgression, but so is offering to give a present back. — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2021 The only way to protect ourselves against the damage caused by Facebook is to start relying on other information sources for joy and edification -- like parks, hobbies, friends and legitimate news sources. — Kara Alaimo, CNN, 5 Oct. 2021 See More

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