'benight' definitions:
Definition of 'benight'
From: WordNet
verb
Overtake with darkness or night
verb
Envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness; "The benighted peoples of this area"
verb
Make darker and difficult to perceive by sight [syn: benight, bedim]
Definition of 'benight'
From: GCIDE
- benight \be*night"\ (b[-e]*n[imac]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Benighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Benighting.]
- 1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- The clouds benight the sky. --Garth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task. [1913 Webster]
- Some virgin, sure, . . . benighted in these woods. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. [1913 Webster]
- Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny ? --Heber. [1913 Webster]