edificant

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin aedificans, aedificantis, present participle of aedificare. See edify.

Adjective[edit]

edificant (comparative more edificant, superlative most edificant)

  1. building; constructing
    • 1655, William Dugard et al., Verses on Gataker:
      And as his pen was often militant
      Nor less triumphant; so edificant
      It also was, like those blessed builders, who
      Stood on their guard, and stoutly builded too.
    • 1845, Ralph Waldo Emerson, journal entry:
      Men are edificant or otherwise. Samuel Hoar is to all men's eyes conservative and constructive []

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Verb[edit]

edificant

  1. gerund of edificar