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verb

benight v. t. (past & past part. benighted; pres. part. benighting)

To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. (Archaic) "The clouds benight the sky."

To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task. "Some virgin, sure,... benighted in these woods."

To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. "Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny?"

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Etymology of 'Benighted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Benighted" Quotes from Famous Books

... apple jam, and very indifferent bedrooms were the best that the Commercial Hotel had to offer, but it was infinitely better than being benighted on the moor. In spite of lack of all toilet necessaries, the Ingletons slept peacefully, worn out with their long day in the fresh air. Milner, the chauffeur, must have made an early start, for he arrived at eleven o'clock next morning in the small car, armed ...

— The Princess of the School • Angela Brazil

... struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness, and the beacon-fire of the Origin guided the benighted. ...

— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell

... baby before birth; and in this cramped position the late warrior is crammed into his grave, until, according to a semi-civilised boy that I knew, he is called to the happy hunting grounds, where he changes colour! "Black fella tumble down, jump up white fella." A clear proof that this benighted people have some conception of a ...

— Spinifex and Sand - Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia • David W Carnegie

... Dyceworthy, "but it is a fact that the Italian or Papist wines are often used here. The minister whose place I humbly endeavor to fill has his cellar stocked with them. The matter is easy of comprehension when once explained. The benighted inhabitants of Italy, a land, lost in the darkness of error, still persist in their fasts, notwithstanding the evident folly of their ways—and the Norwegian sailors provide them with large quantities of fish for their idolatrous customs, bringing ...

— Thelma • Marie Corelli

... sect; and that its fundamental belief was the anticipation of a mysterious prophet—human, and yet divinely inspired—by whose coming the light was to extend from the small and previously unknown band across the whole benighted world. ...

— The Mystics - A Novel • Katherine Cecil Thurston

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