edifying

Multiple Entries:
  edifying    edify  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
edifying/ˈedɪfʌɪɪŋ/

▶adjective serving or likely to provide moral or intellectual instruction or improvement.

– derivatives
edifyingly adverb.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
edify /ˈɛdɪfʌɪ/

▶verb (edifies, edifying, edified) formal instruct or improve morally or intellectually.

– derivatives
edification noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. edifier, from L. aedificare ‘build’, from aedis ‘dwelling’ + facere ‘make’ (cf. edifice).