edifyingly

Then he ought to have died and swung edifyingly, but instead a more terrible thing happened; his head came right off, and down the body went spinning to the sea, feeble, grotesque, fantastic, with the head racing it in its fall.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

While these folks seem quite sincere in their worship, and are edifyingly from my point of view opposed to abortion, their attitudes when the homeless come up are anything but encouraging.

Amp interviewed on a right-wing website 2005

For a truly vapid and incomprehensible yet edifyingly elitist waste of time, do read His Grace's fine paeons to the terminally passionless and intellectually banal.

Hullabaloo 2003

But he screamed most edifyingly when he thought he was in hell.

The Other Side Of Nowhere Leinster, Murray 1964

Finding that he was a character, I carried on the conversation; and he talked most edifyingly to all in the room, as he spoke loud enough to be heard at the very end.

Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Various

Yea, that boys in that holy sport were wont to sing masses, and to climb into the pulpit to preach (no doubt learnedly and edifyingly) to the simple auditory.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

Gellert which vividly and edifyingly impressed young hearts.

Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2 Various

And in support of his position he very edifyingly quoted Ophelion, and Fabianus Papirius, and Sextius Niger to boot.

Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918

And Stuyvesant & Brothers were superlatively acclaiming The Silent Brotherhood, the latest masterpiece of a pornographically gifted genius, who had edifyingly shown that he ranked religion above literature, by retiring from the ministry to write novels.

The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions 1917

Every boy who has ever put together model villages knows how to do these things, and the attentive reader will find them edifyingly represented in our photographic illustrations.

Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books. 1906