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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

... wandered grievously the whole time. Having quitted the church in a buoyant humor, he sauntered in the direction of Hyde Park. How soon might he become, instead of a mere spectator as heretofore, a partaker in its glories! The dawn of the day of fortune was on his long-benighted soul; and he could hardly subdue his excited feelings. Having eaten nothing but a couple of biscuits during the day, as the clock struck seven he made his punctual appearance at Mr. Gammon's, with ...

— Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. • Samuel Warren

... unguardedly go beyond his depth; at length he reached the blind man, took him very carefully by the hand, and led him out. The blind man then gave him a thousand blessings, and told him he could grope out his way home; and the little Boy ran on as hard as he could, to prevent being benighted. ...

— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry

... plasmoid experiments for the moment, and Trigger didn't intend to remind him. She drew her hand back quietly from 113-A. The professor unstoppered the flask. "You'll have some, Trigger, I'm sure? The only really good thing the benighted ...

— Legacy • James H Schmitz

... celestial theatre: remote layers of constellations whose shapes were new and singular; pretty twinklers which for infinite ages had spent their beams without calling forth from a single earthly poet a single line, or being able to bestow a ray of comfort on a single benighted traveller. ...

— Two on a Tower • Thomas Hardy

... the carrots, Monty. Nor tramps, nuther. Sence I ain't constable, to do it myself, I hope the poor creatur' won't get 'rested. Don't know where'd he be stowed, anyway, in this benighted Marsden, where there ain't neither a jail nor a touch to one. What I want to know is: What did you find ...

— The Brass Bound Box • Evelyn Raymond

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