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ædification

ædification is the obsolete spelling of edification.

Meaning of edification

Noun

edification (countable and uncountable, plural edifications)

  1. The act of edifying, or the state of being edified or improved; a building process, especially morally, emotionally, or spiritually.
    • Let euery one of vs please his neighbour for his good to edification.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 15:2
  2. (archaic) A building or edifice.

Forms of ædification

pluralædifications

Questions about ædification

What is ædification the obsolete spelling of?
Ædification is the obsolete spelling of edification.

Words near ædification in the dictionary

  1. æciospores
  2. æcium
  3. æciums
  4. ædicule
  5. ædicules
  6. ædification
  7. ædifice
  8. ædifices
  9. ædified
  10. ædify
  11. ædifying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ædification (page history and authors); edification (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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