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EDIFIED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does edified mean?
• EDIFIED (adjective)
The adjective EDIFIED has 1 sense:
1. instructed and encouraged in moral, intellectual, and spiritual improvement
Familiarity information: EDIFIED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Instructed and encouraged in moral, intellectual, and spiritual improvement
Similar:
enlightened (having knowledge and spiritual insight)
Context examples
I was chiefly edified, I am afraid, by the pictures, which were numerous, and represented all kinds of dismal horrors; but the Martyrs and Peggotty's house have been inseparable in my mind ever since, and are now.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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