edification

See also: édification

English

From Old French, from Latin aedificationem (“building, construction”), an accusative form of aedificatio, from aedificare.

edification (countable and uncountable, plural edifications)

The act of edifying, or the state of being edified or improved; a building process, especially morally, emotionally, or spiritually
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 219:
  Caterina Pachetti had been a very pretty women, which she remembered more to her own edification than to that of her friends.
- March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, 'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary
  It seems clear that he took great delight in his commonly perceived role as “the No 1 celebrity scientist”; huge audiences would attend his public lectures, perhaps not always just for scientific edification.
(archaic) A building or edifice.

the act of edifying, or the state of being edified

building

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