as in to educate
to provide (someone) with moral or spiritual understanding a family-oriented show that tried to edify the television audience as well as entertain it

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Recent Examples of edify Park districts should be overwhelmed with opportunities for young people, whether meaningful and edifying summer jobs or recreational activities that foster community and belonging. Otis Moss Iii, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2025 The pair spectacularly fell out at the back end of last year, amid a series of less than edifying verbal jousts. Dan Cancian, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025 The much-in-vogue hybrid mode proves more cryptic than edifying this time around. Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025 Defeats can be at least as edifying and invigorating as successes. Henri J. Barkey, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2019 See All Example Sentences for edify
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  • The participants were also generally well-educated and came from multiple study sites.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • SciAm always educates and delights me, and inspires a sense of awe for our vast, beautiful universe.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • Its success inspired a wave of canal building in other states, although the economic benefit of these other canals is dubious in retrospect.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The aftermath of that crash inspired her branch of the Brown family tree to reshape the Louisville medical scene.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025

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“Edify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/edify. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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