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Benight   /binˈaɪt/   Listen
Benight

verb
(past & past part. benighted; pres. part. benighting)
1.
Overtake with darkness or night.
2.
Envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness.
3.
Make darker and difficult to perceive by sight.  Synonym: bedim.





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"Benight" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Though some, benight in sin, delight To glut their vandal cravings, These hands of mine shall not incline To ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
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... should be told. Alone in the woods he abided, and a master of masters was he In the craft of the smithying folk; and whiles would the hunter see, Belated amid the thicket, his forge's glimmering light, And the boldest of all the fishers would hear his hammer benight. Then dim waxed the tale of the Volsungs, and the word mid the wood-folk rose That a King of the Giants had wakened from amidst the stone-hedged close, Where they slept in the heart of the mountains, and had come adown to dwell In the ...
— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs • William Morris
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