"edificant" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin aedificans, aedificantis, present participle of aedificare. See edify.",
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          "ref": "1655, William Dugard et al., Verses on Gataker:",
          "text": "And as his pen was often militant\nNor less triumphant; so edificant\nIt also was, like those blessed builders, who\nStood on their guard, and stoutly builded too.",
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          "text": "Men are edificant or otherwise. Samuel Hoar is to all men's eyes conservative and constructive […]",
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        "building; constructing"
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