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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 quotations examples
Let euery one of vs please his neighbour for his good to edification.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Romans 15:2
Caterina Pachetti had been a very pretty women, which she remembered more to her own edification than to that of her friends.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 219
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.
2018 March 14, Roger Penrose, “’Mind over matter’: Stephen Hawking – obituary by Roger Penrose”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, archived from the original on 2022-09-27
(archaic) A building or edifice.