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Six example sentences with edify, each labelled with its topic.
Victorian novels for children were written to edify as much as entertain, closing each chapter with a moral lesson.
Literature
The documentary aims to edify rather than shock, walking viewers patiently through how a city budget is actually written.
Movies
He believed public lectures could edify ordinary listeners, leaving them better informed and a little more careful in argument.
Philosophy
Nineteenth-century mechanics institutes were founded to edify working men with evening lectures on geology, grammar, and steam.
History
The mural was commissioned to edify passers-by, showing local farmers, nurses, and teachers at work along the station wall.
Art
Carnegie's libraries were built to edify whole towns, with reading rooms open free to anyone who walked in.
Architecture
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