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Definition of Benightedly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benightedly
Literary usage of Benightedly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1872)
"he asked, benightedly. "You've been very ill," said Milly, half severely.
"And only to think of your putting yourself in such a state with sherry. ..."
2. American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits: A by Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1897)
"... art, literature and other facilities for unconscious growth and education,
she, benightedly, was looking through the little windows of the stone house, ..."
3. Essays Towards a Critical Method by John Mackinnon Robertson (1889)
"... perversely and benightedly where his theological and other sub-rational
prepossessions were uppermost; while the strenuous Carlyle, more suo, ..."
4. The Lord of the Creation by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (1904)
"He may exist benightedly here and there, but in the main he is exceedingly hard
to find. In the place of him we have that rather portly, hard-living ..."
5. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1868)
"In another place Dr. Sharp fixes on the same auspicious date as the period up to
which the homoeopathic world remained benightedly attached to Hahnemann's ..."
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