Edify vs Exalt - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between edify and exalt

is that edify is to instruct or improve morally or intellectually while exalt is to honor; to hold in high esteem.

is that edify is to build, construct while exalt is to honor; to hold in high esteem.

* (archaic)

(en-verb)

To build, construct.

* , III.i:

That Castle was most goodly edifyde , / And plaste for pleasure nigh that forrest syde

To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.

* Gibbon

It does not appear probable that our dispute [about miracles] would either edify or enlighten the public.

* 1813 , The Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, Vol. VI , page 455

That they ought to edify one another by maintaining and promoting the knowledge of truth.

(Francis Bacon)

(en verb)

To honor; to hold in high esteem.

They exalted their queen.

To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate.

The man was exalted from a humble carpenter to a minister.

* exaltedly * exaltedness * exalter