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benight(dictionary)

benight (iou)



benight verb trans. LME.
[from BE- 4 + NIGHT noun.]
Cover, hide, or involve in the darkness of night. Usu. (and arch. exc.) in pass. LME.
De Quincey The tourists were benighted in a forest.
fig. Involve in intellectual or moral darkness; darken, cloud. Freq. in pass. E17.
W. Davenant Now jealousie no more benights her face. J. Wilson What men..call Religion, now benighting half the earth. Isaiah Berlin The mass of the proletarians themselves were too benighted to grasp the role which history had called on them to play.
benightedness noun the state of being benighted M19.
benightment noun (rare) M17.