Edification is instruction that improves the mind or morals. For your edification, moral edification, offer some edification.
It is now used almost only with a smile, since for your edification announces a lecture nobody asked for. The Latin behind it means building, and the improving sense came from the idea of building a person up.
1nounedificationInstruction that improves the mind or morals.
“The museum hopes to offer both entertainment and edification to its visitors.”
edification is an instruction.
Latin aedificatio means a building, from aedificare, to build, from aedes, a dwelling.
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰeh₁-
Latin
aedificationem — building, construction
English, today
edification
From Old French -, from Latin aedificationem (“building, construction”), an accusative form of aedificatio, from aedificare.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA