Edify vs Deify - What's the difference?
edify | deify |
To build, construct.
* , III.i:
To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.
* Gibbon
* 1813 , The Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, Vol. VI , page 455
To make a god of (something or someone).
To treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity.
Deify is a anagram of edify.
In transitive terms the difference between edify and deify
is that edify is to instruct or improve morally or intellectually while deify is to treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity.As verbs the difference between edify and deify
is that edify is to build, construct while deify is to make a god of (something or someone).edify
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* (archaic)Verb
(en-verb)- That Castle was most goodly edifyde , / And plaste for pleasure nigh that forrest syde
- It does not appear probable that our dispute [about miracles] would either edify or enlighten the public.
- That they ought to edify one another by maintaining and promoting the knowledge of truth.
- (Francis Bacon)