(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.
Enlightenment
Definition:
(n.) Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Kalachakra Puja takes place in the eastern state of Bihar at the holy Bodhgaya site, where the Buddha gained enlightenment.
(2) As Justices Stewart and White famously said, "the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the areas of national defence and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry – in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government".
(3) Society now takes a more enlightened, community-based approach for people like my daughter.
(4) The study was aimed at the enlightenment of intracortical spreading mechanisms in focal epileptic seizures produced by local application of Acetylcholine.
(5) Surjit S Bhalla, a Delhi-based consultant and former World Bank economist, said the British decision was "enlightened".
(6) With careful and enlightened use, pesticide toxicity, to both man and the environment, could be significantly reduced.
(7) Marginalised and wronged groups have been able to use online campaigns to usher us all forward into a more enlightened era in which we are more open-minded about the LGBQT community, disability, race, religion and so forth.
(8) These data provide further enlightenment regarding the mechanisms of the well-preserved functional capacity noted in these patients.
(9) We were enlightened by this therapeutic experience, so we attempted combination therapy using pepleomycin suppositories to supplement intra-cavitary irradiation, for the 11 selected patients who were suffering from uterine fluor.
(10) In the time of enlightenment more and more people thought, that very much cases of suicide were committed in severe illness.
(11) Possible causes have to be seen in long time of hospitalisation (average = 304 days), and apparent inadequate enlightenment of patients and in functionally and cosmetically insufficiencies.
(12) Our purpose is to enlighten the central position of competence in cognitive structures and coping systems of the patients.
(13) in 1991, French philosophy enjoyed a golden age akin to classical Greece or Enlightenment Germany.
(14) I haven't felt this enlightened since extraordinary rendition.
(15) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
(16) Daud Naji, an Enlighten Movement leader, said on Sunday that they had been told only that there was a “heightened risk” of attack and had subsequently cancelled nine of 10 planned routes.
(17) Beverage price increases were regarded to be the least effective approach by nurses and clerical employees, while physicians felt that the press was the least likely source of enlightenment.
(18) The first museums on history of nature were opened in early Enlightenment and had originated from baroque curio galleries at most of the European courts.
(19) But then the dislocations and traumas caused by industralisation and urbanisation accelerated the growth of ideologies of race and blood in even enlightened western Europe.
(20) Had English rulers taken a more enlightened view of gender issues they might not have got into such a mess.