edifying vs improving

edifying

adj
  • That enlightens or uplifts. 

  • That educates, informs, illuminates or instructs. 

noun
  • edification 

improving

adj
  • That tends to improve someone or something (especially (dated) to educate or morally better a person). 

How often have the words edifying and improving occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )