Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Edification

Edification , noun

[Latin aedificatio: compare French édification. See Edify.]

1.
The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; instruction.
The assured edification of his church. — Bp. Hall
Out of these magazines I shall supply the town with what may tend to their edification. — Addison
2.
A building or edifice. [Obsolete] — Bullokar