benight

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BENI'GHT, verb transitive [be and night.] To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night. The clouds benight the sky. 1. To overtake with night; as a benighted traveler. 2. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light; as benighted nations, or heathen.
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