Edifyingly

Origin

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

Full definition of edifyingly

Adverb

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.