edifyingly

English

Etymology

From edify, from Middle English, from Old French edifier, from Latin.

Adverb

edifyingly (comparative more edifyingly, superlative most edifyingly)

1. In such a manner as to instruct or enlighten.
   • 1908, H. G. Wells, The War in the Air,

     They hung the man from the Adler. [...] Down he fell, hands and feet extended, until with a jerk he was at the end of the rope. 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.