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Definition of Benighted

1. Adjective. Overtaken by night or darkness. "Benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home"

2. Adjective. Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture. "A dark age in the history of education"

Definition of Benighted

1. Adjective. plunged into darkness ¹

2. Adjective. overtaken by night ¹

3. Adjective. lacking knowledge or education; unenlightened ¹

4. Verb. (past of benight) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Benighted

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Benighted

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Literary usage of Benighted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gutenberg, and the Art of Printing by Emily Clemens Pearson (1871)
"Benighted. — Minstrel of the Hearth. — The Black Art. — A Barefoot Friar. ... Benighted, Gutenberg, wrapped in his monk's cloak, little heeded the roaring ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1860)
"... to travellers benighted in the surrounding country ; or that it might be a warning to those who heard it to think of their own “ passing bell,” and so ..."

3. In the Forbidden Land: An Account of a Journey Into Tibet, Capture by the by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1898)
"I stalked a herd of antelopes, and having gone some five miles from camp, I was benighted, and on my return had the greatest difficulty in finding my men in ..."

4. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1844)
"JOI ADVENTURE OF A Benighted TRAVELLER. BY CHARLES OLHER, AUTHOR OF " FERRERS. ... Benighted on a moor !—" an awkward situation for a nervous man! ..."

5. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt by Leigh Hunt (1850)
"Inhospitality to the benighted.— Answers of rustics to wayfarers. — Pedestrian exploits.—Dangers of delay.—The club of elders. FOR some time after I left ..."

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