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Synonyms for edifying

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Synonyms for edifying

enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement

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In this very edifying table, the publisher highlights the ranking of the most important banks of the place of Tunis, in terms of NBI (Net Banking Income), outstanding deposits or money deposited by customers in the Moroccan bank under Tunisian law and constitutes (the money) the main tool of the establishment, whose object is precisely the sale of money.
IT is edifying to see the work of the huge partnership that reintroduced red kites to the North East for the first time in 170 years go from strength to strength.
"God's Supernatural Power in You" is a compilation of powerful testimonies and edifying stories of God at work in and through twelve individuals committed to allowing God's power to be manifest through their lives.
The recent change of power in Kirklees has hardly been an edifying spectacle with florid language being used, black holes allegedly being discovered in council finances and all manner of hints emerging as to how deeply services might be endangered because of the budget situation.
Discovering that your granddaughter has been blagged on a swing, even in a roundabout way, is hardly edifying. I once had sex on a carousel - airport security was not at all amused.
Next time I suggest you publish a full disclosure concerning the risk of reading your highly edifying, highly motivating, but incredibly risky magazine.
Dann traces how Rorty's rejection of philosophy as adjudicator, as science, and as the discoverer of the Way Things Really Are leads to a conception of philosophy that is thoroughly therapeutic and edifying. Rorty's contrast between systematic philosophy and edifying philosophy is introduced here; it is the crucial distinction in Dann's position.
A lot of damage was done through the long centuries of Christian conflict by people willing to escalate theological debates into pitched battles, charge opponents with heresy, and manipulate political power to suppress or even kill (in the name of the Lord) those defined as "false teachers." Reading ancient accounts of charges of heresy is not edifying. Theologians often let their passion for doctrinal purity wipe out their obligation to Christian charity.
Though these disclosures don't fit postwar revisionism in Beijing (and in many liberal Western circles), such revelations are edifying. "Mao ...
The juiciest and most edifying dances were those that Belilove performed.
As a consumer, it was exponentially more edifying to me than the post-9/11 rumblings of the mainstream media's binary, Crossfire-style opinion slinging.
The same is true of Carol Ann Vaughn's edifying story of Martha Foster Crawford, the first foreign missionary commissioned by Alabama Baptists in 1851, who went to China as the wife of the controversial T.
It's not just that the difference between edifying institution and entertaining circus (much less between museum storehouse and yard sale) has dissolved, but that it was never really there.