| benight | 1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. "The clouds benight the sky." (Garth) 2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task. "Some virgin, sure, . . . Benighted in these woods." (Milton) 3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. "Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny ?" (Heber) Origin: Benighted; Benighting. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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