Inculcate vs Edify - What's the difference?
inculcate | edify |
To teach by repeated instruction.
To induce understanding or a particular sentiment in a person or persons.
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 inculcate and edify
is that inculcate is to induce understanding or a particular sentiment in a person or persons while edify is to instruct or improve morally or intellectually.As verbs the difference between inculcate and edify
is that inculcate is to teach by repeated instruction while edify is to build, construct.inculcate
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(inculcat)Quotations
{{timeline, 1900s=}} * 1932': Wordless conditioning ... cannot '''inculcate the more complex courses of behaviour. — ''Brave New World , Aldous Huxley * 1943': The right defense against false sentiments is to '''inculcate just sentiments. — ''The Abolition of Man , C. S. Lewisedify
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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)
