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edifyings

edifyings is the plural of edifying.

Meaning of edifying

Noun

edifying (plural edifyings)

  1. Edification.
    • I am slightly skeptical about the neatness of these edifyings in the play. Olivia remains my best positive case, Malvolio my best negative. "Too proud," as Viola says, Olivia is humbled by both Feste and Viola, her twin fools, but more obviously and more frequently by herself, until finally she is...2002, E. Beatrice Batson, Selected comedies and late romances of Shakespeare from a Christian perspective

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Questions about edifyings

What is edifyings the plural of?
Edifyings is the plural of edifying.

Words near edifyings in the dictionary

  1. edifieth
  2. edify
  3. edifying
  4. edifyingly
  5. edifyingness
  6. edifyings
  7. Edige
  8. Ediger
  9. Edigers
  10. edile
  11. ediles

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