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Benight [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night.

2. The clouds benight the sky.

3. To overtake with night; as a benighted traveler.

4. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light; as benighted nations, or heathen.

Benight [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.

2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.

3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.

Benighted [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Involved in darkness, physical or moral; overtaken by the night.

Benighted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Benighting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Benightment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The condition of being benighted.