edification — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. The act of edifying, or the state of being edified or improved; a building process, especially morally, emotionally, or spiritually.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   Let euery one of vs please his neighbour for his good to edification.

   Caterina Pachetti had been a very pretty women, which she remembered more to her own edification than to that of her friends.

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

2. A building or edifice.

   Uso

   • arcaico
   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

Sostantivo

1. uplifting enlightenment

   Sinonimi

   sophistication

   Termini più generali

   enlightenment