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adjectiveedificatory (comparative more edificatory, superlative most edificatory)
comparative more edificatory · superlative most edificatory
- Tending to edification.
1649-1654, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience Where these gifts of interpretation and eminent endowments of learning are found, there can be no reason of restraining them from an exercise so beneficially edificatory to the church of God.
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