(n.) The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; instruction.
(n.) A building or edifice.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm not sure anyone – even "so-called literary critics" such as me – wants a return to the wicked old days, when a literary judgment was passed down, de haut en bas , for the edification of the reading public.
(2) Eight of the 16 and their long-suffering partners waltzed and tangoed for our delight and certainly not our edification.
(3) When not singing his heart out for the edification of Keith Richards, the pre-fame Shaky is to be found playing benefit gigs for the Communist party of Great Britain, organised by Barrett, who "was and still is a card-carrying communist", even encouraging Shaky and band to work up a rockabilly version of The Red Flag.
(4) These results suggest that somatostatin might play a regulatory (inhibitory) role on the cellular proliferation which leads to the blastema edification.
(5) The sparse details mentioned in the report about setting up refugee camps, dispatching reconnaissance teams, and offering safe haven to exiled North Korean leaders are too vague to be of much edification.
(6) For one thing, Reith thought that “pleasing relaxation after a hard day’s work” was just as vital a building block of the rounded, balanced citizen as programmes of “edification and wider knowledge” – indeed, that to have one without the other would be culturally hurtful.
(7) To the adult, these activities may seem trivial, frivolous, and removed from the "real world," but to the adolescent, they are an important source of self-esteem during a critical and volatile period of self-concept edification.
(8) Mutation kat 80 specifically hits catalase anabolism, as no significant variations were observed for the edification of the respiratory system and (apo)cytochrome c peroxidase production.
(9) The taxonomy identifies eight basic categories: disclosure, question, edification, acknowledgement, advisement, interpretation, confirmation, and reflection, which are defined by three principles of classification.
(10) The non proportional changes in PER and PPV as temperature rises revealed that an increasing part of the ingested aminoacids were used for synthesis of fat, non for proteins edification.
(11) This hypothesis proposes the existence of three factors, two growth factors referred to as "stromally derived growth factor" (SDGF) and "epithelially derived growth factor" (EDGF), and one inhibiting factor, "epithelially derived inhibiting factor" (EDIF), which together modulate the replicative and transcriptional processes of the prostate.
(12) The "gliogenic" participation in the edification of granulomas may produce peculiar morphological features especially in the central nervous system, and perhaps more than elsewhere, pseudotumoral features.
Edifice
Definition:
(n.) A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
(2) Speaking in Donetsk's Victoria hotel – a gleaming multistorey edifice next to the city's state-of-the-art Donbass football stadium – Taruta says he's confident presidential elections due on 25 May will take place.
(3) Second, the use of those feral financial balances to undermine currencies in pursuit of short-term gain and maximum income returns has brought the whole edifice to the point of breaking.
(4) They would see that their sacrifice has, paradoxically, contributed to their economic insecurity by allowing for a glut of money in trade surpluses to be built up in a banking system that has developed innovative techniques of financial engineering which only reward the plutocracy in corporate boardrooms and banks, and contribute to the instability of the economic edifice that delivers jobs and prosperity to the masses.
(5) But the edifice began crumbling very slowly right from the start.
(6) There are interior deserts, rain forests and 300-year-old ferns growing here, and the glass edifice – itself around since the 1840s –stands in Garfield Park , which has everything your 19th-21st century park goer could dream of: winding paths, sport fields, a pool and a pond.
(7) By the day, almost by the hour, the cracks in the edifice of modern tennis are widening.
(8) God save our gracious Queen”, even though I would get rid of her and the entire edifice upon which she stands as soon as possible.
(9) And this is why the US and the Swiss should set about dismantling the rotten edifice of Fifa – if only to show that when something is truly unacceptable, we refuse to accept it.
(10) In the business centre at the vast Gamescom exhibition in Cologne, Microsoft has its usual great green edifice – a rabbit warren of meeting rooms and break-out areas, with monitors showing endlessly rolling game trailers.
(11) The fact that this great stately edifice was constructed on Orkney, an island that has become a byword for remoteness, makes the site's discovery all the more remarkable.
(12) Immediately on assuming power, the chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, did away with the colour red in public edifices, and replaced it with blue and white.
(13) Only this time he is taking aim at the edifice of the political system that championed him.
(14) It is clear that empirical evidence will not persuade them to abandon an edifice that, as Milne points out, is built on such shaky ground that whatever fancy maths it involves, it is fundamentally worthless.
(15) The colossal complex sits near the centre of the small town, as large as several office blocks placed end to end, its white and yellow steel edifice dwarfing the sandstone tenements of Barrow Island.
(16) The first is complete, a brooding 140m-tall edifice by Zaha Hadid for the port's largest shipping company.
(17) It seemed sound, but if Greek default were followed by, say, the Irish, Portuguese and Spanish governments doing the same, and the euro collapsed, the consequent losses could eliminate the capital underwriting the entire banking edifice.
(18) The lawyers of Yangon could have done with a little divine intervention in their recent battle against the privatisation of the former high court and police commissioner’s office, a grand classical edifice whose ionic colonnade marches around an entire city block facing the waterfront on Strand Road.
(19) When every possible point has been made against the follies and failures of the EU, that cannot begin to match the Europhobes’ vast edifice of illusion, part of a pattern that stretches back years or centuries.
(20) On one side is the vast Victorian edifice of the McEwan Hall, a 2,000-seat auditorium that would make energy-efficiency experts go pale.