"edificatory" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˌɛdɪfɪˈkeɪtəɹi/ Forms: more edificatory [comparative], most edificatory [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} edificatory (comparative more edificatory, superlative most edificatory)
  1. Tending to edification.
    Sense id: en-edificatory-en-adj-F1~3l37U Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "text": "1649-1654, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience\nWhere 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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