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Respectable vs Edifying - What's the difference?

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Respectable is a related term of edifying.


As adjectives the difference between respectable and edifying

is that respectable is deserving respect while edifying is that educates, informs, illuminates or instructs.

As a verb edifying is

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respectable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Deserving respect.
  • :
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  • *:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
  • Decent; satisfactory.
  • :

    • Antonyms

    * disrespectable

    Derived terms

    * respectably

    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)

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