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edifying | education |

As an adjective edifying

is that educates, informs, illuminates or instructs.

As a verb edifying

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun education is

the process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.

edifying

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That educates, informs, illuminates or instructs.
  • That enlightens or uplifts.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • "Do not let any corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers." -Ephesians 4:29 (KJV)

    Anagrams

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    education

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (generally jocular) educashun, educamation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) The process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • (countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, either formally or informally.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}

    Derived terms

    * all-round education * distance education * educational * educationist * general education * liberal education * mass education * primary education * secondary education * tertiary education * higher education * further education * edjamacation

    See also

    * training * schooling