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• n  uplifting enlightenment

• This talkathon is earnest and worthy but also mulishly static, more suitable for classroom edification than for home entertainment.
• At the Paris Fair last year this huge number was written, for the edification of fairgoers, round round in a spiral on the inside wall of a circular room.
• For the edification of the ruling class, Nikita Khrushchev denounced the late dictator's terror tactics in a secret speech to the 20th Party Congress in 1956.

• sophistication

News & Articles

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• Nathaniel Philbrick's 'Bunker Hill:' the battle for independence begins
  Looking for a way to commemorate July 4?  For entertainment, inspiration and edification all at once, try watching a lively interview with author/historian Nathaniel Philbrick, author of “Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution.” Philbrick’s book will put you right in the t
  July 2, 2013 - Seattle Times

Quotes

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• Susan Sontag in New York Times
  At one point Sontag writes: "I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it."
• Augustine of Hippo in Zenit News Agency
  His friend, the Bishop Possidius wrote: "Many books were written and published by him, many homilies were given in Church and then transcribed and edited, both to refute various heresies as well as to interpret Sacred Scriptures for the edification...