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edificatory

/ˌɛdɪfɪˈkeɪtəɹi/

edificatory adjective: tending to edification.

Adjective

edificatory (comparative more edificatory, superlative most edificatory)

  1. Tending to edification.
    • Where these gifts of interpretation and eminent endowments of learning are found, there can be no reason of restraining them from an exercise so beneficially edificatory to the church of God.1649-1654, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience

Forms of edificatory

comparativemore edificatory
superlativemost edificatory

Questions about edificatory

What does edificatory mean?
Edificatory means tending to edification.
What part of speech is edificatory?
Edificatory is an adjective.
How do you pronounce edificatory?
Edificatory is pronounced /ˌɛdɪfɪˈkeɪtəɹi/.

Words near edificatory in the dictionary

  1. edificate
  2. edification
  3. edifications
  4. edificator
  5. edificators
  6. edificatory
  7. edifice
  8. edifice complex
  9. edifice complexes
  10. edifices
  11. edificial

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