Glorify vs Edify - What's the difference?
glorify | edify |
to exalt, or give glory or praise to (something or someone)
to make (something) appear to be more glorious than it is
to worship or extol
To build, construct.
* , III.i:
To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.
* Gibbon
* 1813 , The Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, Vol. VI , page 455
In lang=en terms the difference between glorify and edify
is that glorify is to worship or extol while edify is to instruct or improve morally or intellectually.As verbs the difference between glorify and edify
is that glorify is to exalt, or give glory or praise to (something or someone) while edify is to build, construct.glorify
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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)