edificant

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1. building; constructing

   Men are edificant or otherwise. Samuel Hoar is to all men's eyes conservative and constructive […]

   1845, Ralph Waldo Emerson, journal entry

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   And as his pen was often militant Nor less triumphant; so edificant It also was, like those blessed builders, who Stood on their guard, and stoutly builded too.

   1655, William Dugard et al., Verses on Gataker