Definition of "edifyingly" [edifyingly]

• In such a manner as to instruct or enlighten. (adverb)

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• "Then he ought to have died and swung edifyingly, but instead a more terrible thing happened; his head came right off, and down the body went spinning to the sea, feeble, grotesque, fantastic, with the head racing it in its fall."
• "While these folks seem quite sincere in their worship, and are edifyingly from my point of view opposed to abortion, their attitudes when the homeless come up are anything but encouraging."
• "For a truly vapid and incomprehensible yet edifyingly elitist waste of time, do read His Grace's fine paeons to the terminally passionless and intellectually banal."