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Definition of Edifiers
1. edifier [n] - See also: edifier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Edifiers
Literary usage of Edifiers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"They have rejected the authors and edifiers of the republic, and chosen one who
has contributed nothing but promises—promises at variance with his life and ..."
2. The Writings of John Burroughs by John Burroughs (1896)
"It is here, in my opinion, that we must place Whitman; not among the minstrels
and edifiers of his age, ..."
3. The Principles of Sociology by Edward Alsworth Ross (1920)
"... fee — farther yet to the Protestant and Mohammedan conception of a clergy who
are pastors and edifiers, but not intermediaries between the soul and God. ..."
4. Prayers and Offices of Devotion, for Families, and for Particular Persons by Benjamin Jenks (1833)
"... an occasion of falling; but that we may be mutual helps and edifiers of one
another, and examples of all that is good, and imitable and praise-worthy. ..."
5. Discourses on the Christian Spirit and Life by Cyrus Augustus Bartol (1850)
"We are mixers and combiners of motives, edifiers of a spiritual and immortal
temple, painters of a picture whose hues may harden for an eternal duration, ..."
6. The Spirit: The Relation of God and Man, Considered from the Standpoint of by Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison, James Arthur Hadfield, Charles Archibald Anderson Scott, Cyril William Emmet, Arthur Clutton-Brock (1919)
"... our timidity we have emptied of all enchantment, we do not see Christ among
the poets and music-makers, His peers, but among the preachers and edifiers. ..."
7. The History of Normandy and of England by Francis Palgrave (1864)
"Our own noble sacred structure stands firm, yet riven and dilapidated by the
artillery of her edifiers and defenders. The shells projected by Cranmer and ..."
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